Moaning British people!

Jason, it jumped from 70 to 94, in one day,  and in two days its going from 91 to 70 for an high and rain. As long as I get some veggies out my of garden this summer is all I hope for right now, I wish I could have an surplus though, it's been an long time since I've had an garden like in the old times, where we had so many zuchinni squash and tomatoes we left them on the curb side for free. I still have not sealed the 6 foot picnic table I bought the other day, me thinks I better "get on it real soon" though. We went with the kids to Rooster Rock State Park, see how they were doing, there was about 100 boats there including one looked like Bob's in full sail, then we went to Blue Lake where on Government Island, across from it, everyone and their tent arrived for July 4th fireworks tomarrow night...only access to it is by boat.  On the way an abulance and emergency vehicles were headed to Blue Lake for an rescue. The Sandy River was body to body also today, but they patrol it. We all decided to sleep in the living room tonight again, and I wore my light weight granny gown, no sexy stuff around the little kids, I'm taking an "sweat bath" in the thing tonight. So I'm up drinking cranberry juice with no added sugar. Hoping when I go to bed, its cooler. It's almost 12 mid-night right now. Yeah, sticky and clammy would be good words to describe me. I only like dreamin if I have good dreams. I've had OBE episodes that were pretty "Hair-raising" in the past. I said my prayers and I asked God, to not take me there unless I can do something to stop what's going on beforehand. He seems to have compiled pretty much. Well, off to bed, take my plls and head in as I'm tired. I get up early and don't sleep until late and I get so darn tired! ZZZzzz.

I couldn't live without the change of seasons!! And I love the bad weather that goes with each of them too!!

But I am lucky, where I live we do not have a huge threatof hurricanes or tornados or earthquakes....only on a very very small scale.

Rain Rain

Rain rain
falls on the street,
mud in puddles
cleaning my feet.

Thunder thunder
rumble and roar,
close the windows
and lock the door.

Clouds clouds
black and gray,
heavy with water
to drop all day.

Sun sun
is breaking through,
clouds are moving,
the rain stops too.

Rainbow rainbow
across the sky,
see-through colours
to tickle my eyes.

James Hörner .

 I like that Babs!!;-))

   we always complain about the weather here !!!  

  Barbara wished you could post the email you sent out about putting things into perspective,,,With what the soilders are having to deal with everyday and what we take for granted here ever day!!

Can I get a little moaning in?    copied and pasted from the "Severe Weather Alert" section of our forecast:

AN UNUSUALLY STRONG HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL BUILD OVER TEXAS THROUGH THE NEXT FEW DAYS THEN STRENGTHEN AND EXPAND WESTWARD TOWARD THE END OF THE WEEK.

THE STRONG HIGH WILL THEN REMAIN ANCHORED OVER
NEW MEXICO THROUGH THE WEEKEND. COMBINED WITH RELATIVELY DRY AIR IN THE LOWER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE THIS WILL LEAD TO EXCESSIVELY HOT TEMPERATURES BEGINNING FRIDAY AND LASTING THROUGH THE WEEKEND.

AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES OF 112 TO 117 DEGREES WILL BE COMMON ACROSS THE LOWER DESERTS DURING THIS PERIOD. THOUGH THE HEAT OF THE SOUTHWEST UNITED STATES IS OFTEN CLASSIFIED AS A DRY HEAT...HEAT INDEX VALUES DURING THE PEAK OF THE APPROACHING HEAT WAVE WILL BE ABOVE 110 DEGREES IN THE MAJOR POPULATED DESERT AREAS OF PHOENIX ...YUMA...AND EL CENTRO. NOTE THAT THE HEAT INDEX IS A MEASURE OF HOW
HOT THE AIR FEELS WHEN ACCOUNTING FOR HUMIDITY.

EXACERBATING THE HEAT WAVE WILL BE OVERNIGHT TEMPERATURES THAT REMAIN IN THE UPPER 80S TO LOWER 90S.

The silver lining is that we have 325 days of sunshine per year. 

If it rains the whole time we're in the British Isles next month, Jason, I promise I won't moan. 

Debbie, here's the link:

http://www.iupui.edu/~webtrain/special/when_a_soldier_comes_home.htm