<p>Well, we did save on air conditioning this year, but fixing the basement is going to eat up an of those savings and then some. Can’t win.</p>
<p>It rained lightly here today, and was actually pretty. It was sunny, little or no breeze and the rain fell straight down with the sun glistening through the rain lines. </p>
<p>If it weren’t for my basement, I wouldn’t mind the rain.</p>
<p>a few weeks ago I got a picture of a double rainbow right after a hard rain.</p>
<p>It was beautiful… <a href=“http://picasaweb.google.com/sueinphilly/Rainbow#[/url]”>http://picasaweb.google.com/sueinphilly/Rainbow#</a></p>
<p>We are at our “camp” (Mainers know what that is) - unpaved road. I am waiting for the day - any minute now - when we are marooned here with all tires spinning in the mud. I need hip boots just to walk to the car. Here at camp, we hang clothes out to dry, lol (washing machine, but no dryer). Needless to say, that is a non-starter. Any money we might save on AC (if we had it) will be spent on buying enough underwear to last for 40 days and 40 nights.</p>
<p>Our CT yard is full of terrifying fungi—one type that looks like a mushroom with a glandular problem, another yellowish kind that I can’t even begin to describe. As soon as things dry out a bit, I’ve got to go dig them up so the exceptionally dumb dog won’t snack on them. Winter is looking pretty good from here.</p>
<p>SueinPhilly… nice shot… double rainbows are a real treat to see!!</p>
<p>Pouring here… oldest just got in from playing ultimate frisbee… crazy frisbee if you ask me! I asked if his team won, he replied “no one won!”</p>
<p>Looking at the extended forecast, first mention of sun is Thursday July 9th… </p>
<p>Jmmom… loving the image of no clean dry clothes… am thinking bathing suits and coverups are the way to go? my youngest went to a big dance last nite for Habitat for Humanity… big crowd expected…so he wore a bathing suit and t-shirt knowing it would be HOT… smaht kid…</p>
<p>I actually like rain. I like English weather.</p>
<p>But this is ridiculous. It was either the 4th or 5th rainiest June on record. Tonight, driving home from choir practice cars were throwing up rooster tails on the highway. </p>
<p>I remember a week of gorgeous days in May. </p>
<p>Admittedly, I hate hot weather and I would take even this over triple digit heat. But I am SO done with rain now. SO TOTALLY DONE!!</p>
<p>What is the new term I read about in the NYTimes? Rain rage? Yeah, sounds like an apt description of what those on the east coast are feeling.</p>
<p>In good news, I haven’t had to dish out $7 for a car wash in months. :)</p>
<p>Hmmm . . . sunny and low 80s here in Minnesota, right through the holiday weekend. C’mon over to Sunny Minnesota. Plenty of brats & beer, fireworks, a free outdoor performance of Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion to celebrate the show’s 35th anniversary. Life is good here on the edge of the prairie . . . .</p>
<p>This morning I felt like turning on the heat. Fortunately natural gas is much cheaper than electricity.</p>
<p>Please send some of it this way. We’ve had temps 100+ for the past 4 weeks with maybe about 10 minutes of rain total during the entire 4-week period.</p>
<p>I went to NH in mid June with the girls. They had no idea it could be that cold in June. We woke up to pouring rain and 50 deg and promptly went to the mall to buy sweatshirts.</p>
<p>I was planning on going up over the 4th to see my dad. When he told me it hadn’t hit 70 and had rained all week, I begged off. Nothing worse that sitting around in the rain with a bunch of frustrated golfers!</p>
<p>Not to mention, bclintonk, you have a new Senator!</p>
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<p>D2 is a counselor at a camp that’s near North Conway, NH, and it’s been in the 40s at night. Her campers started last Saturday and it’s rained every day. </p>
<p>There’s sun here in Central MA right now. I can’t believe how my mood changed when I saw it.</p>
<p>We have had a few glimpses of SUN today…some blue sky… fleeting at times, but it is NOT raining as I type…</p>
<p>Happy, Happy, Happy!!</p>
<p>Look at the bright side - it’s so nice and green around there and that requires rain. Imagine - grass that grows without having to buy water for it! You wouldn’t like to have to pay what I’m paying for water around here.</p>
<p>But I understand - I’ve done vacations in the UK where it rained or sprinkled/drizzled almost all the time and it does put a ‘damper’ on it. But again, that’s why it’s so green around there.</p>
<p>btw - we enjoyed our time last week up in your neck of the woods including all the greenery but again, the weather was generally pretty decent during the week we were there.</p>
<p>ucdad–I think if I lived where you do, I would not grow grass. I’d definitely do some sort of xeroscaping. Even here in the NE, we don’t water no matter how dry it gets. We get droughts, too, and I hate to use water on that. I figure brown grass in August is nature’s way of telling us fall is coming.</p>
<p>Dateline, Western Mass</p>
<p>So we thought we had sealed up all the leaks in our lovely basement room once and for all. Had the dehumidifier going down there, then yesterday- more rain and WATER all over the floor. S1 spent all afternoon mopping and searching for the leak. Turns out he emptied the humidifier and forgot to put the plug back in.</p>
<p>It would be a good lesson learned, if we thought he would remember next time…</p>
<p>can I suggest an alarm that sounds when the floor is just getting wet. At least you will get notice that that is a problem before too much damage is done. A big wet/dry vac is your best defense against the inflow of water.</p>
<p>So, the sun came out and we ventured out. The weeds have grown! Now I know how we’re going to spend tomorrow…:(</p>