Moody weather | pad patter 5.28.19

It's been so dry here! We could use some rain.

I like a rainy day mixed in with lots of sunny days. If I have more than one day of rain my kids go stir crazy, they NEED to play outside.

 

Feel free to send us your rain ! We're going into level 1 water restrictions this weekend because the dam levels are dropping (they should have started ages ago but anyway). The ski season is also starting a week early south of here b/cos we've had about a week of winter already - I'm over it already, (I'm one of those people that doesn't understand why people go to play in the snow )

 

We get a lot of rain here in Fredericksburg, Virginia. I'm definitely more productive on sunny days, but I don't mind rain usually. Lately, a couple of times, I've even not let it stop me taking my daily walk. I just used an umbrella. Using an umbrella is the part of rainy days I dislike. I'm more likely to try to avoid using an umbrella than avoid getting wet.

 

Speaking of weather --- this was on my phone first thing this morning:



It's CRAZY today. Went out to help Hubster move the littles blow up pool- less than 10 minutes and the glare was so bad I couldn't see inside for another 5 minutes. This is the first truly hot day that I have found to be difficult. Guess who will be sneakin' into the pool this evening?!! haha.

 

Today is the first day of SUN.... It's gorgeously HOT and STEAMY!

 

Whoa! That is SO hot! Yikes! I hope you are able to take a dip in that pool and cool off!

 

Me too and we live much closer to the snow - can see it on the Brindabellas for the past couple of days (the nearest mountain range although it is really just a bunch of very pretty hills). All our friends were amazed that when we went to Japan we didn't go skiing because that seemed to be the only reason they would go there...

But I could live with weeks of rain, the drought we had in the 90's and early 2000's will be forever burnt on my brain and will take rain whenever it comes our way. We are lucky this year that we have had enough so we haven't needed water restrictions but I see Melbourne is also headed down that track. So very glad we don't get any tornadoes though!

 

it has been a rainy spring here, I'm ready for some sun BUT I do have to admit all my rose shrubs/plants/trees are loving this spring they look stunning!

 

Update on this past week. 16 or 17 tornadoes were confirmed for the state of Ohio overnight Monday/Tuesday. 3 of those were in my county. If can say "luckily" they were EF0 and EF1. The one right outside of my town actually hit 2 homes along with many farm buildings (it was the EF1). I know one of the homeowners... the tornado first touched down on their property. No one was harmed in these tornadoes. One of the EF0 tornadoes was caught on tape by a camera at a high school in a small town on the eastern side of the county (my town is in the middle). It was in the school parking lot but did no major damage to the school.

We still have people in recovery mode though from the major flooding that happened May 17th. That was from a boatload of rain that happened in a short amount of time. There was flooding of streets in my town that I have never seen flooded.

We have had some more rain this week but nothing to cause flooding. As for me, I am still without a desktop computer so not getting on the internet much. Hate using the laptop... it is so slow! New computer has been ordered and hopefully will be here mid-week.