Okay ... who's hoarding all the rain?

I keep hearing on the weather report about how heavy the rain is in some areas, but it sure ain't happening in my yard!

Nor mine! I have drips going as I type! Guess it's all falling in the north.

I have been sacrificing virtual virgins. It is working. Now if only I can convince the weather gods to bring the warmth back. I have one last brugmansia that is trying valiantly to bloom before fall hits.

Okay -- the first person to get Pixy's address goes over and confiscate her computer. No more sacrifices, virtual or otherwise!

I'm sorry but I've been hogging all the rain. It came down in absolute buckets, sheets of rain. I was going to water the garden but this rain got everything and then some.

Its pouring here, the rain beating on my patio roof is strangly pleasant, I've missed it... LOL I have burgs trying to bloom too, one is just huge with 10" bells on the flower.. just beautiful. I hate to see the rain come but alas, season change is gonna happen. Might as well give in, and ride the wave.

7:30 pm and it is pouring down. thunder n' lightening a few hrs ago. My fir tree is dancing.

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This is absolutely unfair! There's hardly a cloud to be seen and I haven't felt a single drop all day. Anybody lay claim to Pixy's sacrificial altar yet?

Lots of rain and snow here in Montana. We started our wet cycle today and got rain and drizzle all day. Tonight it is cold and wet. Got the fire started and curled up with a book. The mountains east of us are covered with the first blanket of white. I love this time of year.

Rain may come in the end, but so far, my house is dry. I continue my vigil. I expect rain in October. This is too early for me. My mantra:

Ohh-Padme-NORAIN-OOOOHHHMMMMMMM Repeat ad infinitum as the virgins jump.

Snow, Sofer? That would not go over well here...
I just want another 6 weeks of dry weekends so I can finish the season properly - ha!
Like that's going to happen!
Rain up here east of Lake Sammamish was earlier in the day - I was ecstatic that I could go home after work & play outside.
Why can't it rain at night? As much or as often - I don't care, as long as it's at night.

I hate to give you guys in Seattle area this information but here in the flathead valley most of our rain comes at night. The days are sunny and when the nights cool they let the rain fall. It is rare that we see the rain except on graveyard at McDonalds.
Only one reason for leaving Seattle was the clouds. You should have lived there in the 70's it rained all the time. Maybe 2 or 3 rain free weekends a year.

No thanks! I don't think I COULD have lived here in the 70's. But rainy at night? I'm for that! Oh yeah, you get really, really cold and snowy though. Hmmm.

It snows all year round, the bears kill children on their way to school, you need a handgun to go shopping or someone will take your groceries, Banks are located in bars here so you don't have to go home....... It is a dark and scary world here. No one would like to move here. Lions and tigers and bears Oh My. LOL

Soferdig:
I have to disagree with you about Seattle in the 70's! I lived there from '63 to '74 and they were some of the most beautiful summers of my life. Okay, I was 11 when we moved out of town so my memories may be a little hazy, but I'm sure there was lots of sun.

However, the three years I spent in northern Arizona had weather that couldn't be beat, as long as you got to go home for July & August -- way too hot for PNWers like me. Suntans started in April and lasted (at least) through October. The rainy season was during the summer, but the rain almost always fell only at night. The sunsets were absolutely beyond compare, and we usually stopped what ever we were doing just to watch. WOW!

I remember a summer in the late 70's or early 80's that the sun only came out for about 3 weeks during the whole summer. People would flock out of the buildings and stand just to have the sun on them when it came out. Also then it was cloudy from Oct to end of june. every yr. I know cause I moved out there then. Now you have sunny days starting in March and ending in November. It has changed a lot. Seatac Airport was fogged in often in Oct thru Jan. No planes could land and had to go to Spokane to get them to Seattle. You were too young to remember the cloudy times before El Nino.

So El Niño was the precursor to dryer weather in the PNW? Curious because NASA is reporting the development of a new El Niño happening now. My memories of the last large El Niño is 12 foot piles of snow at the end of my cul de sac in the CA Sierras. My property was under snow from Nov. thru March. Brrrr!

We got a bit of rain overnight. But no rain this morning! I can already see Mr. Sun trying to peek out from behind the fluffy clouds. A little blue coming through them gives me hope for today.

No rain here at all, and that's not good. Our well water is getting pretty low and I don't like the idea of hunting up a motel so I can shower.

I love the snow.... if I could afford it I would have a winter home in the mountains.. just for the snow. I grew up in snow country! Eastern Wa.

Here is a shot of my burg, finaly bloomed.. more on the way if the weather keeps up. ...

MzW: rain will be there soon.. keep the faith

Oh I have no doubt the rain will come. I have my soap and my back scrubber at the ready!

Yes the pacific high is pushing all of the mosture from the Pacific to the south. Just talk to people in Denver and Utah and AZ they have had rain all summer. Creeps they stole what we NWners always had. Any way this happened in the years 800-1300's and caused the Little Ice Age in the past. It is on Nova on TV if you are interested. Quite interesting topics on ocean currents.

Soferdig I love Nova and shows like that. Unfortunately they don't show them much on ABC, NBC or Fox, which are the only three stations I've had for the last year. One of these days DH is going to get that satellite dish fixed and put up!

I've got ...

... my fingers ...

... and toes ...

... crossed!

Wait ... I think ... maybe ... Yes!

It's finally here -- RAIN IN MY YARD!

Yea for you! We have sunshine here. Yea for me and my virgins!

I just had a vision of MzW in her yard, with soap and back scrubber.. doing the rain dance...



Viv

Oh God I hope not! You might make yourself violently ill. lol

Virgin sacrifice, back scrubbers, rain dances, visions? Geez, I leave you people alone for a few days and look what happens. What exactly were you doing in the 60's and 70's that is causing these contradictory weather memories? Hmmm... Perhaps some of the rosier memories are due to better living through chemistry or botany. Well? O.K. I know you didn't inhale. Now just pull yourselves together and enjoy the global warming or impending ice age.

XOXO

Nor did I shoot up, swallow or snort. Well, I only snorted when I laughed. I'm a good girl, I am.

I am an angel too. Most of my friends think I am the most handsome person they have ever met. Oh I am also the smartest person I know. Boy you can get away with murder on the internet.
Pixy bring those virgins to the swap meet on the 23rd. I want them to sing Wagners "Ride of the Valkuries" as they fly around on horses. Oops my mushrooms are acting up again.

Hey now! I didn't say I was an angel or anything close to it, but chemicals have never been my thing. Now a nice glass of ruby Port or a good oaky Merlot -- that's another story. :-)

Hey now! I said they were 'Virtual' virgins. Maybe that was 'virtually' virgins. I don't know. But the rain missed my house, so they must have virtually been virginal enough. Sorry, they've already been sacrificed. How could I possibly bring them?

I haven't the slightest idea what you people are referring to. I was a veritable child in the 60s. I barely remember the decade.

"Virtually" virgins? Wouldn't that be something like being "a little" pregnant?

I've heard of contact pregnancy, but not of contact virgins. I wonder if a contact virgin is anything like a virtual virgin.

I'll contact one and see..