OT: It's Raining!

In article <[email hidden]>,

Wayne Boatwright wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com said:

After over 4 months without a drop of rain, it's finally raining in Phoenix!
A great steady downpour began in the middle of the night and has been raining
continuously. It's now after 1:00pm. I'm "freezing"! You can't imagine
what a wet 38°F feels like to someone who's used to a dry 80°F. This is
first time I've had the furnace on this year.

OB Food: Pots of chili and beef-mushroom-barley soup are simmering on the
stove. I will bake cornbread to go with it for supper.

A good excuse for weather related food... :-)

I hope we get a good rain here too! My herb garden can use it and it'd
save me $$$ on watering it
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Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

On 12 Mar 2006 06:51:19 +0100, Wayne Boatwright

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On Sat 11 Mar 2006 10:35:07p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it modom?

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I'm glad you're cold and wet tonight, and I mean that in the best
possible way.

Happy chili to you!

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Thanks, Michael, and maybe some rain for you soon. As you said, a drought
is a drought.

BTW, how did leveling your house turn out?

We're two weeks into the process and we're looking at another two
weeks as far as I can tell. All of the 26 holes outside have been
started at least. Most are at the proper depth of ~4 feet. It
remains to be seen whether we'll need to sink a hole in the hall
outside a bathroom. That one scares me.

I had to remove the storm door in the back yesterday because it opened
out and would hit the sheet of plywood they set over a hole at my
request. One of the dogs tumbled into a pit the night before. He's
okay, but I just about croaked from the fright. So the holes in the
back are covered now.

And lordy, lordy, do I ever have a lot of dirt out there in the yard.
Something approaching 26 cubic yards of dirt. I picked up some
plastic weed barrier and 72 cinder blocks last week, so now I'm in the
process of moving dirt into a 16 x 8 foot raised bed for vegetables.
I'm on spring break. That'll be my occupation for the coming week:
dirt grunt. Of course, that's only going to use a little of the
excess dirt.

I'm told that I can sell it.

OBFood: I think I'd like to try a burrito place my barber recommended
to me over in Sulphur Springs. Lunch time approaches.
--
modom

"My baby's got no clothes
'Cause she's makin' chicken soup."

-- Chuck E. Weiss

On Sun 12 Mar 2006 09:36:56a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it modom?

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On 12 Mar 2006 06:51:19 +0100, Wayne Boatwright

wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com said:

On Sat 11 Mar 2006 10:35:07p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it modom?

Quoted message said:

I'm glad you're cold and wet tonight, and I mean that in the best
possible way.

Happy chili to you!

Quoted message said:

Thanks, Michael, and maybe some rain for you soon. As you said, a
drought is a drought.

BTW, how did leveling your house turn out?

We're two weeks into the process and we're looking at another two
weeks as far as I can tell. All of the 26 holes outside have been
started at least. Most are at the proper depth of ~4 feet. It
remains to be seen whether we'll need to sink a hole in the hall
outside a bathroom. That one scares me.

OMG, I knew the process was extensive, but I had no idea just how
extensivee! Having a hole like that *inside* the house would scare me,
too.

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I had to remove the storm door in the back yesterday because it opened
out and would hit the sheet of plywood they set over a hole at my
request. One of the dogs tumbled into a pit the night before. He's
okay, but I just about croaked from the fright. So the holes in the
back are covered now.

Aw, the poor baby. I bet he/she was just as horrified as you were.

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And lordy, lordy, do I ever have a lot of dirt out there in the yard.
Something approaching 26 cubic yards of dirt. I picked up some
plastic weed barrier and 72 cinder blocks last week, so now I'm in the
process of moving dirt into a 16 x 8 foot raised bed for vegetables.
I'm on spring break. That'll be my occupation for the coming week:
dirt grunt. Of course, that's only going to use a little of the
excess dirt.

Well, at least you'll be getting a nice garden out of it, but won't you
also have to add more topsoil?

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I'm told that I can sell it.

That's probably the option I would take.

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OBFood: I think I'd like to try a burrito place my barber recommended
to me over in Sulphur Springs. Lunch time approaches.

LOL! When I first read this sentence, I read it as "buy" a burrito place.
I thought, uh oh, Michael is losing it! <g> "Trying" it sounds like a
better deal.

--
Wayne Boatwright o¿o
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The really cool part was all the thunder and lightning, which I've really
missed since leaving MN.

kimberly

Holy Crow!!!! That stuff kept me lying awake in terror at night and you
miss it??? I always wondered how you were supposed to see or hear a
tornado coming in that ferocious weather.
Janet

Oh trust me, as someone who's been through tornadoes, there's no doubt you
can hear them coming. Sounds like a freight train bearing down on you!!

I grew up with big noisy thunderstorms. Out here, if it rains more than 10
minutes, the newscasters are panicking about "Storm Watch 2006"! Hilarious.
What people consider a storm here, is usually just a bit of rain back home.
That's why the hail and thunder and lightning were so great...it almost
never happens here.

kimberly

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The really cool part was all the thunder and lightning, which I've
really missed since leaving MN.

kimberly

Holy Crow!!!! That stuff kept me lying awake in terror at night and you
miss it??? I always wondered how you were supposed to see or hear a
tornado coming in that ferocious weather.
Janet

Oh trust me, as someone who's been through tornadoes, there's no doubt you
can hear them coming. Sounds like a freight train bearing down on you!!

I grew up with big noisy thunderstorms. Out here, if it rains more than 10
minutes, the newscasters are panicking about "Storm Watch 2006"!
Hilarious. What people consider a storm here, is usually just a bit of
rain back home. That's why the hail and thunder and lightning were so
great...it almost never happens here.

kimberly

I lived through those storms in the mid-west and couldn't hear or see
another thing. But I'll trust you when you say that you could hear the
tornadoes. We had one touch down nearby and I heard nothing above the roar
of the storm and battering of the hail stones.
Janet

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> The really cool part was all the thunder and lightning, which I've
> really missed since leaving MN.
>
> kimberly
Holy Crow!!!! That stuff kept me lying awake in terror at night and you
miss it??? I always wondered how you were supposed to see or hear a
tornado coming in that ferocious weather.
Janet

Oh trust me, as someone who's been through tornadoes, there's no doubt
you can hear them coming. Sounds like a freight train bearing down on
you!!

I grew up with big noisy thunderstorms. Out here, if it rains more than
10 minutes, the newscasters are panicking about "Storm Watch 2006"!
Hilarious. What people consider a storm here, is usually just a bit of
rain back home. That's why the hail and thunder and lightning were so
great...it almost never happens here.

kimberly

I lived through those storms in the mid-west and couldn't hear or see
another thing. But I'll trust you when you say that you could hear the
tornadoes. We had one touch down nearby and I heard nothing above the
roar of the storm and battering of the hail stones.
Janet

When I was 14 we had a tornado come within 1/4 mile of our house. It was
huge. Took the neighbor's garage right off the foundation, and left his boat
sitting there *on* the foundation. I've never forgotten it.

kimberly

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The really cool part was all the thunder and lightning, which I've really
missed since leaving MN.

Holy Crow!!!! That stuff kept me lying awake in terror at night and you
miss it??? I always wondered how you were supposed to see or hear a
tornado coming in that ferocious weather.

Oh trust me, as someone who's been through tornadoes, there's no doubt you
can hear them coming. Sounds like a freight train bearing down on you!!

Interesting. We "don't get tornadoes" here in Oz, but when I was
living briefly in Brisbane some decades ago I thought I heard a train
bearing down on the house one arvo. Looked out the front door and saw
a wall of whirling debris coming down the street.

Bit of a shock that! But, taking my cue from cyclone [hurricane]
strategy, I retreated to the smallest room in the house [the loo, of
course] and waited. Things got a bit noisier and through the small
window I could see sheets of iron peeling off the roof of the house
next door -- so I assumed we were losing ours too. There was a rather
large "thump" and the sounds of glass breaking; and then the
non-tornado was past, cutting a narrow swathe of severe damage across
a number of suburbs.

As it turned out, we didn't suffer any serious structural damage to
our house. A small _Grevillea_ tree in the front yard was twisted off
its stump, which ended up looking like a three-foot long corkscrew;
and a pine tree on the boundary tried to come in through the bedroom
window, but that was about it as far as we were concerned.

Clearly not up to the standard you Yanks enjoy (or else our houses are
a damn sight better built 🙂 but I'll be happy if I never experience
another like it. (Long back in cyclone territory now anyway.)

Cheers, Phred.

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> The really cool part was all the thunder and lightning, which I've
> really
> missed since leaving MN.
>
Holy Crow!!!! That stuff kept me lying awake in terror at night and you
miss it??? I always wondered how you were supposed to see or hear a
tornado coming in that ferocious weather.

Oh trust me, as someone who's been through tornadoes, there's no doubt you
can hear them coming. Sounds like a freight train bearing down on you!!

Interesting. We "don't get tornadoes" here in Oz, but when I was
living briefly in Brisbane some decades ago I thought I heard a train
bearing down on the house one arvo. Looked out the front door and saw
a wall of whirling debris coming down the street.

Bit of a shock that! But, taking my cue from cyclone [hurricane]
strategy, I retreated to the smallest room in the house [the loo, of
course] and waited. Things got a bit noisier and through the small
window I could see sheets of iron peeling off the roof of the house
next door -- so I assumed we were losing ours too. There was a rather
large "thump" and the sounds of glass breaking; and then the
non-tornado was past, cutting a narrow swathe of severe damage across
a number of suburbs.

As it turned out, we didn't suffer any serious structural damage to
our house. A small _Grevillea_ tree in the front yard was twisted off
its stump, which ended up looking like a three-foot long corkscrew;
and a pine tree on the boundary tried to come in through the bedroom
window, but that was about it as far as we were concerned.

Clearly not up to the standard you Yanks enjoy (or else our houses are
a damn sight better built 🙂 but I'll be happy if I never experience
another like it. (Long back in cyclone territory now anyway.)

Cheers, Phred.

When I was growing up and we had damage like that, people would say we had a
strong wind storm because everybody knew we didn't get tornados where we
lived. ;o}} The weather people have since informed them differently.
Janet

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After over 4 months without a drop of rain, it's finally raining in
Phoenix!
A great steady downpour began in the middle of the night and has been
raining
continuously. It's now after 1:00pm. I'm "freezing"! You can't imagine
what a wet 38°F feels like to someone who's used to a dry 80°F. This is
first time I've had the furnace on this year.

OB Food: Pots of chili and beef-mushroom-barley soup are simmering on the
stove. I will bake cornbread to go with it for supper.

--
Wayne Boatwright o¿o
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Four inches of snow on the deck this morning, frozen rain underneath. That
wasn't supposed to happen. The entire commute area for the city (about 50
miles out) is hazardous driving according to the highway department. Joy.
Janet

Phred said:

Bit of a shock that! But, taking my cue from cyclone [hurricane]
strategy, I retreated to the smallest room in the house [the loo, of
course] and waited.

Hope you remembered to lie in the bathtub.
--

Practice safe eating. Always use condiments.

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Phred said:

Bit of a shock that! But, taking my cue from cyclone [hurricane]
strategy, I retreated to the smallest room in the house [the loo, of
course] and waited.

Hope you remembered to lie in the bathtub.

Proper loos don't have bathtubs. Bathrooms often do, but they are
usually much larger rooms. 🙂

Cheers, Phred.

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Glitter Ninja said:

ms_peacock said:

I've heard stories about pioneer women that committed suicide because of

the

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incessant winds out here. I don't know if they're true or not but it
wouldn't surprise me.

Me neither. Nothing bothers me more than wind, and I would go crazy
sometimes, sitting at home, unable to drown out the sound. If I can get
inside where I can't hear the wind, or if wind is accompanied by rain,
it's not so bad for me. But the last year of windiness, even in Eastern
Kansas, has been nerve-wracking.

Think of poor Lillian Gish in her movie _The Wind_...

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Best
Greg

Phred said:

In article said:

Phred said:

Bit of a shock that! But, taking my cue from cyclone [hurricane]
strategy, I retreated to the smallest room in the house [the loo, of
course] and waited.

Hope you remembered to lie in the bathtub.

Proper loos don't have bathtubs. Bathrooms often do, but they are
usually much larger rooms. 🙂

So, "loo" is what you call the toilet room part of a victorian type
"split" bathroom? I thought that was the WC (water closet).
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Practice safe eating. Always use condiments.

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Phred said:

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On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:02:14 GMT, Phred wrote:

> Bit of a shock that! But, taking my cue from cyclone
> [hurricane] strategy, I retreated to the smallest room in the
> house [the loo, of course] and waited.

Hope you remembered to lie in the bathtub.

Proper loos don't have bathtubs. Bathrooms often do, but they are
usually much larger rooms. 🙂

So, "loo" is what you call the toilet room part of a victorian type
"split" bathroom? I thought that was the WC (water closet).

"Loo" is just another word for toilet. In a lot of homes (such as the one
I grew up in, and the one I live in now) it is in a separate room to the
bathroom, and that room would be known as the toilet or loo. In others
the toilet is in the bathroom. In both cases I would say I was "going to
the loo". I don't know about Phred, but although I certainly know what WC
means, I don't know anyone who uses that term now.

--
Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia

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Phred said:

In article <[email hidden]>,
sfpipeline_at_gmail.com wrote:
>On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:02:14 GMT, Phred wrote:
>
>> Bit of a shock that! But, taking my cue from cyclone
>> [hurricane] strategy, I retreated to the smallest room in the
>> house [the loo, of course] and waited.
>
>Hope you remembered to lie in the bathtub.

Proper loos don't have bathtubs. Bathrooms often do, but they are
usually much larger rooms. 🙂

So, "loo" is what you call the toilet room part of a victorian type
"split" bathroom? I thought that was the WC (water closet).

"Loo" is just another word for toilet. In a lot of homes (such as the one
I grew up in, and the one I live in now) it is in a separate room to the
bathroom, and that room would be known as the toilet or loo. In others
the toilet is in the bathroom. In both cases I would say I was "going to
the loo". I don't know about Phred, but although I certainly know what WC
means, I don't know anyone who uses that term now.

Yeah. I don't recall anyone here ever using the term "WC", though I
suspect nearly everyone would know what it is.

In my childhood, the "loo" was down in the back yard and known as the
thunder box. The Council's Sanitary Service ("night soil man"😉 came
round to change the cans.

Later, we got a septic system and the loo became a small room at the
far end of the open back verandah. Most loos of the septic era were
sort of "outside" like that around here, if not semi-detached by being
in a far corner of the ground-level laundry.

Although this place has sewerage connected and an internal toilet in
the bathroom (in lieu of the original one, still there and functional
at the end of the back landing) I really don't like that design in
principle. Much preferable to have a completely separate loo -- but
not *outside* the back door!

Cheers, Phred.

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Although this place has sewerage connected and an internal toilet in
the bathroom (in lieu of the original one, still there and functional
at the end of the back landing) I really don't like that design in
principle. Much preferable to have a completely separate loo -- but
not *outside* the back door!

I prefer a separate toilet as well - but not an outdoor one. We never had
one, but I've stayed somewhere that did. Not my favourite thing to do -
especially on a rainy night <g>. Ours is separate, but it is carved out of
the bathroom. There are two doors from the hallway to the two rooms, but
the two rooms fit into one rectangle - the back wall of the toilet has the
shower recess on the other side of it, if that makes sense. Means the
toilet doesn't have a window - has an exhaust fan that comes on
automatically when light is turned on.

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Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia

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Although this place has sewerage connected and an internal toilet in
the bathroom (in lieu of the original one, still there and functional
at the end of the back landing) I really don't like that design in
principle. Much preferable to have a completely separate loo -- but
not *outside* the back door!

I prefer a separate toilet as well - but not an outdoor one. We never had
one, but I've stayed somewhere that did. Not my favourite thing to do -
especially on a rainy night <g>. Ours is separate, but it is carved out of
the bathroom. There are two doors from the hallway to the two rooms, but
the two rooms fit into one rectangle - the back wall of the toilet has the
shower recess on the other side of it, if that makes sense. Means the

Makes a damn sight more sense than the pedestal sitting naked in a
corner of the bathroom. :-)

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toilet doesn't have a window - has an exhaust fan that comes on
automatically when light is turned on.

And you need the light because there's no window -- very functional
design. ;-)

Cheers, Phred.

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