Why there is no weekly neep
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raithen will stop bouncing in her chair.
But first, before I forget--Horse Camp. End of October. Right before or after World Fantasy (which is October 24th-28th or thereabouts). Torture Lady will be here along about then and there will be Much To See And Do. Exact dates TBA. If you want to come and have preferences, holler.
Anyway. Why There Is No Neep Today.
Thursday morning comes up grey and drippy. Bush telegraph is humming. Lessons are cancelled. This is good because just when mine would have been starting, the skies open again. Total by evening: .4 inch.
Friday, skies are still grey. Total by evening: .3 inch. Both days, we are able to get horses out in the afternoon, and longe or ride as needed.
Saturday morning: pouring. Rain gauge stands at 1 inch. Bush telegraph concedes that lessons won't happen that morning, either. Again, as I would have been starting my lesson, the skies, they mourn. Total by evening: additional inch. Total so far since Tuesday (counting that day's brief cloudburst): 2.8 inches. We haven't had this much rain in a week since, oh, a year ago January.
Sunday morning: drippity drippity drippity drippity splat. Rain gauge: 1.25 inches. It clears up enough for Capria to get a road ride in the evening, but the arena is vewwy vewwy wet.
Monday morning: sploshity sploshity sploshity glurg. Rain gauge: 1.45 inches. Total for the week: 5.5 inches. The arena is a goner, Keptin. Next possible lesson if it clears up as promised tomorrow, will be sometime over the weekend. It will take that long for the mud to dry.
Oreo wants me to Turn It Off Now. He's quite insistent.
The stalls are sloppy but draining. Horses have dry places to go if they choose: the paddock is mostly dry and about three-quarters of Pooka's stall is still dry. The doorway has sprung a leak and there's a big puddle there. Babymonster's big pen that he shares with mom is muddy but doesn't pool even during the storms.
Tucson is having Fun With Water. People who have moved here in the past five to seven years have never seen anything like it. Road closures everywhere, roads overwhelmed with walls of water, and those nice sandy "driveways" are, like, you know, rivers. I'm cut off from Tucson by the way I usually take, though there's a longer way (not so long now there's a spiffy new road across formerly open desert--said spiffy new road is beautifully clear and dry). My little town is not in trouble; we're on high ground for the most part, and the Pantano is staying within its banks. It is, however, a river now instead of a sandy canyon.
A nice side effect is that, finally, after a brown, dead year, we have Flowers.
First of all, however, this is Pooka's opinion of the situation. He's in the garden apartment because of the puddle in his stall and the pond in his run. Neither he nor his ladies (who are separated from him by 20 feet) are pleased. Usually they're sharing a wall or fenceline.
This UFO (Unidentified Flowering Object) appeared in the yard this week and bloomed today. It's a lily of some sort, but so far I haven't found it in any of the books.
The Texas Ranger bush is waking up--it's popping out with blossoms.
And finally, Hillary thinks he wants to come out and join me. Except I know what he thinks of Wet Feet.
And that is why the neep, she does not happen now.
raithen will stop bouncing in her chair.But first, before I forget--Horse Camp. End of October. Right before or after World Fantasy (which is October 24th-28th or thereabouts). Torture Lady will be here along about then and there will be Much To See And Do. Exact dates TBA. If you want to come and have preferences, holler.
Anyway. Why There Is No Neep Today.
Thursday morning comes up grey and drippy. Bush telegraph is humming. Lessons are cancelled. This is good because just when mine would have been starting, the skies open again. Total by evening: .4 inch.
Friday, skies are still grey. Total by evening: .3 inch. Both days, we are able to get horses out in the afternoon, and longe or ride as needed.
Saturday morning: pouring. Rain gauge stands at 1 inch. Bush telegraph concedes that lessons won't happen that morning, either. Again, as I would have been starting my lesson, the skies, they mourn. Total by evening: additional inch. Total so far since Tuesday (counting that day's brief cloudburst): 2.8 inches. We haven't had this much rain in a week since, oh, a year ago January.
Sunday morning: drippity drippity drippity drippity splat. Rain gauge: 1.25 inches. It clears up enough for Capria to get a road ride in the evening, but the arena is vewwy vewwy wet.
Monday morning: sploshity sploshity sploshity glurg. Rain gauge: 1.45 inches. Total for the week: 5.5 inches. The arena is a goner, Keptin. Next possible lesson if it clears up as promised tomorrow, will be sometime over the weekend. It will take that long for the mud to dry.
Oreo wants me to Turn It Off Now. He's quite insistent.
The stalls are sloppy but draining. Horses have dry places to go if they choose: the paddock is mostly dry and about three-quarters of Pooka's stall is still dry. The doorway has sprung a leak and there's a big puddle there. Babymonster's big pen that he shares with mom is muddy but doesn't pool even during the storms.
Tucson is having Fun With Water. People who have moved here in the past five to seven years have never seen anything like it. Road closures everywhere, roads overwhelmed with walls of water, and those nice sandy "driveways" are, like, you know, rivers. I'm cut off from Tucson by the way I usually take, though there's a longer way (not so long now there's a spiffy new road across formerly open desert--said spiffy new road is beautifully clear and dry). My little town is not in trouble; we're on high ground for the most part, and the Pantano is staying within its banks. It is, however, a river now instead of a sandy canyon.
A nice side effect is that, finally, after a brown, dead year, we have Flowers.
First of all, however, this is Pooka's opinion of the situation. He's in the garden apartment because of the puddle in his stall and the pond in his run. Neither he nor his ladies (who are separated from him by 20 feet) are pleased. Usually they're sharing a wall or fenceline.
This UFO (Unidentified Flowering Object) appeared in the yard this week and bloomed today. It's a lily of some sort, but so far I haven't found it in any of the books.
The Texas Ranger bush is waking up--it's popping out with blossoms.
And finally, Hillary thinks he wants to come out and join me. Except I know what he thinks of Wet Feet.
And that is why the neep, she does not happen now.
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Date: 2006-07-31 10:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-01 06:01 am (UTC)nearly neep!
Date: 2006-07-31 10:43 pm (UTC)also. *THBTT* It's been a weekend, you know. I like my routines! also, I don't think you can ever meet my Momma as the two of you would mock me quite mercilessly.
Aside for a vignette: this morning, Mom shifting to a sitting position (which Requires Concentration right now). Me prattling on. Then realizing that she has asked for quiet when concentrating. Me says "oops, sorry, shouldn't be talking!" Her: "it's ok. You can't help yourself."
*snerk*
also. October, huh? end thereof. HMMMM....
*thinkery* *very quiet little holler*
Re: nearly neep!
Date: 2006-08-01 06:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-31 10:48 pm (UTC)No, indeed. The neep is curled up in a nice dry spot, waiting for better weather.
Damn, I wish I could see all the washes running....
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Date: 2006-08-01 05:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-31 11:18 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaryllis
We had rain here yesterday and blue skies today--but of course that's what summer in the PNW is like--blink and you'll miss it!
Anon
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Date: 2006-08-01 05:59 am (UTC)This has lots of leaves and is only a foot high, so not that exactly, but it is in the same or similar family.
There is a picture of this same flower in a gallery of the local paper, but labeled only "flowers after monsoon rains." So it must be something either local or popularly planted locally. I don't know if it was dormant in the yard or a bird dropped a seed or what. But it's lovely.
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Date: 2006-07-31 11:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-01 05:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-01 02:13 am (UTC)Sympathy to you all (and Scotland icon) for the rain. We've been having similar, but we sort of expect it (although the lake is a lot higher than usual for the time of year).
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Date: 2006-08-01 05:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-01 02:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-01 05:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-01 05:53 am (UTC)Old Spanish is closed from Colossal Cave to Saguaro East. Good thing I have an alternative route if I need to get to town. Joni is probably socked in--they've closed the roads all around her and the Santa Cruz is now an inland sea just west of her. Next we'll hear that the Gila is flooded--that runs over I-10 for miles when it's feeling perky.
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Date: 2006-08-01 03:00 am (UTC)*WAI!* HATE CITIES ALREADY. Am safely in Dlalas, movign into new apartment tomarrow, but.. man...
SO on for Horsecamp in October if I can raise the funds.
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Date: 2006-08-01 05:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-01 03:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-01 05:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-01 05:30 pm (UTC)Seems this is a time for temptations, as just the other day I spotted an ad for a nicely sized 7-year-old Lipizzan mare (a Hungarian import of the Tulipan line) stabled not too terribly far from where I live. I am trying to tell myself I should probably look into stabling first. ;)
Poor Pooka really doesn't look too keen on the weather, but it must be nice to have gotten some rain (even if it sounds like nature overdid it just a bit). We've had what passes for unusually warm and dry here for a few weeks, and that's been more than enough for me.
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Date: 2006-08-01 11:31 pm (UTC)I wanna see the washed out houses in the Pantano if it happens too.
Here in San Francisco we have been having very strange weather. It has been sunny and pleasant as opposed to foggy and cold.
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Date: 2006-08-16 05:52 pm (UTC)