Why on earth
can it be that my friends and neighbors in adjacent counties and states are inundated- nay, deluged, with rain, and wet weather, and MY lawn is the color of Scorch? I mean, I feel for the folks in the flooded areas, I really do- but can’t a guy get a rainstorm? Last weekend we were promised a downpour, I got ten drops. I LOVE rain. And I never seem to get any. They’re predicting heavy thunderbangers this week, and if you look at the radar picture, it’s a couple of lazy, wispy clouds. Peckerheads.
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I’ve got an antique slot machine down in the basement. You can go 20, 30, 40 pulls without a payout. On occasion I’ve hit the jackpot, ~2500/1 odds, twice in a couple of pulls. Usually, you get the odds, which are ~80% back of what you put in. If you play long enough, 80% is exactly what you’ll get.
I too, love and watch for rain. What I have noticed is that the rain and the slot machine behave very similarly. You can go days, weeks, months without rain. Then, sometimes, all it will do is rain. But mostly you get the average for your area, if you wait long enough.
It rained here on the 4th. I would much rather watch it rain than watch fireworks!
I’d be happy to send you what we’ve been getting here. Woke up Friday to a downpour, and even got rained on when we went downtown for the fireworks that night.
I wish it would dry up so I could clean out my gutters. I’ve got a forest of maple trees up there.
Nathan, you clean the gutters when it’s raining. The rest of the time they’re not overflowing!!
We know this feeling, very well.
Dick, I hear you. I wish I had a lawn like yours, though, I could keep it watered with drool.
What? I don’t drool that much. Really.
Dang, sorry, that was me.
Trade ya.
We’ve had hot/humid for two weeks now, w/t-storms every day- morning, evening, or sometimes night.
Folks can’t cut the hay either with all this wet.
Storm a week ago pretty much washed out the dirt road to the house.
Ayuh, I’ll trade…
More rain today. So much for cutting the lawn.
This is starting to suck. But on the other hand, if it stays cool and damp in the summer, global warming fetishists cry. So I guess there’s a silver lining in these damn clouds.
Yeah, like D/T says, the bad thing about a lot of rain the summer is eventually it stops. Then you have 187% himudity.
Yes, that IS a word. I’ll work up a definition in a minute, here.
M
Isn’t himudity when you are high on all the mud you’re inhaling (wet dust)?
What do I know…other than that the rain held off long enough for me to cut the front yard.
No rain here for at least three more months, but we got air so smokey from the fires you can walk on it like a lawn – I can’t see the mountains just 4-miles away.
Come on down to Boone County. Bring your bucket. We can’t get the straw baled for all the rain.