You call this winter??
Jan. 15th, 2011 06:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aearwenEast-Coast and Little Siberia folks may not want to read the following paragraphs...
Trust me, if your weather has been lousy lately, you do NOT want to read under the cut.
I refuse to be responsible for any dishes broken, desks torn up and trashed, or blue smoke from the ears to result from those ignoring the warning. :-D
After weeks of being chilly, sitting at the computer running the space heater and still shivering, our weather has turned.
Majorly.
I kid you not. Today, according to KSBY.com (local TV station), it was 86°!!!! That's... that's... unheard-of in the middle of winter. That sounds more like something you'd see in... say... Hawaii, perhaps. The Caribbean. Mexico (perhaps in and around the Yúcatan peninsula.
Certainly not up here, in Alta California, USA!!
Even the breeze was warm. I could have mistaken this for an Indian Summer day of, say, mid-September, not a mid-winter day of mid-January.
I guess there are times when the Universe gives me good reason for having moved to and stayed in this little corner of Paradise. We don't get earthquakes too very close by (and those that are, generally aren't too hard to weather.) We don't get huge floods (nothing like what I see on the TV from Australia and elsewhere of late.) We get wildfires, but unless something goes VERY wrong, they don't get anywhere near town. Our dam has recently been upgraded, reinforced and generally improved, so we aren't in danger of repeating the Johnstown incident.
Our hills are an emerald green from the ample rain we've had this year, and they have been since mid-November (which is very early - as I think I've mentioned here before.) Deciduous trees have, for the most part, shed their leaves for the year (except for our screwball English Walnut tree, which attempts to emulate the nearby Haas Avocado trees and stay green year-round.) Our backyard looks like a jungle - or did until Hubby (feeling much better, thank you) went out there and mowed today (JJ trimmed the front hedge and mowed the front yard.)
I feel so lucky to live here. And I feel guilty, hearing about the weather others on my f-list in here are enduring. That's why this is under the cut.
The day was beautiful! I wish I could can the sunlight and warm and ship it to everyone who hasn't seen that dear UFO for a while.
Sorry. Just couldn't help it.
Trust me, if your weather has been lousy lately, you do NOT want to read under the cut.
I refuse to be responsible for any dishes broken, desks torn up and trashed, or blue smoke from the ears to result from those ignoring the warning. :-D
After weeks of being chilly, sitting at the computer running the space heater and still shivering, our weather has turned.
Majorly.
I kid you not. Today, according to KSBY.com (local TV station), it was 86°!!!! That's... that's... unheard-of in the middle of winter. That sounds more like something you'd see in... say... Hawaii, perhaps. The Caribbean. Mexico (perhaps in and around the Yúcatan peninsula.
Certainly not up here, in Alta California, USA!!
Even the breeze was warm. I could have mistaken this for an Indian Summer day of, say, mid-September, not a mid-winter day of mid-January.
I guess there are times when the Universe gives me good reason for having moved to and stayed in this little corner of Paradise. We don't get earthquakes too very close by (and those that are, generally aren't too hard to weather.) We don't get huge floods (nothing like what I see on the TV from Australia and elsewhere of late.) We get wildfires, but unless something goes VERY wrong, they don't get anywhere near town. Our dam has recently been upgraded, reinforced and generally improved, so we aren't in danger of repeating the Johnstown incident.
Our hills are an emerald green from the ample rain we've had this year, and they have been since mid-November (which is very early - as I think I've mentioned here before.) Deciduous trees have, for the most part, shed their leaves for the year (except for our screwball English Walnut tree, which attempts to emulate the nearby Haas Avocado trees and stay green year-round.) Our backyard looks like a jungle - or did until Hubby (feeling much better, thank you) went out there and mowed today (JJ trimmed the front hedge and mowed the front yard.)
I feel so lucky to live here. And I feel guilty, hearing about the weather others on my f-list in here are enduring. That's why this is under the cut.
The day was beautiful! I wish I could can the sunlight and warm and ship it to everyone who hasn't seen that dear UFO for a while.
Sorry. Just couldn't help it.
