🙂 😦 Rain. !!
We’re thankful for the rain. This entire area was in serious drought. They were talking water restrictions. A guy on the radio said we were down over eight inches from normal.
A little over a week ago, a front moved in. My rain gauge had three inches the Friday we left for Greensboro. I emptied the gauge.
When we returned on Tuesday, my five inch gauge was full. I emptied it.
Last I looked, I had 1.5 inches more.
‘It’s still raining.
We’re very thankful for the rain. But wish we could share some with Donna and Michelle.
🙂 I’m not driving down from Williamsburg today.
That was the schedule.
It was a tough trip Tuesday, but not as bad as it would be today.
One thing about long trips in nasty weather that people don’t consider is that:
You can’t use cruise control.
When I was young I would drive twelve hours with my foot on the accelerator. I had forgotten how tiring that is. But we have several convenient safety features now.
Cruise control.
Right side mirrors.
Signal seeking radio dials.
Adjustable seats.
It’s so much easier now and you miss them when you can’t use them.
😦 She would say it can’t be worse than the bath she had to undergo this week. (She only gets about one bath a year, but she takes forever to dry.)
🙂 We had great weather for the fair.
😦 We have a dreary, misty, blowy day today.
🙂 Younger daughter declared it soup weather, so she is going to make soup and I don’t have to cook today. (She already cooked once this week, but she enjoys cooking.)
🙂 Exciting news: We have a 50% chance of rain on Sunday AND it’s only going to be a (Brrrr) chilly 70 degrees. We’re preparing to bundle up.
🙂 Took Carol on a round of errands today (returned books to the Hollywood Library — where she checked out more; Dollar Tree — I was tempted to buy a toy squeaky rat for Annie but didn’t — and then lunch at Denny’s on Sunset).
😦 Major traffic, though — it took me almost 15 minutes just to inch my way onto the freeway from my house with 3 huge cruise ships in port and a big event also being held on the Iowa; then, all lanes of northbound traffic on the freeway were stopped for a police chase, we sat for about 10 minutes before we were allowed to proceed.
We had traffic the other day, coming back from Moscow. The folks were headed out from the combine derby. We saw twenty cars just on the stretch from Craigmont to our house, about fifteen miles. It was tedious.
But I understand the combine derby and the farm truck races were both exciting. A few of the farm trucks overturned almost like they were in a derby and one driver broke his leg. Ouch.
Very true, Jo. We don’t like to drive behind anyone for the dust during the summer months. We joke when there are more than a few cars on the road. I must say, rush hour traffic is not a fun thing with which to deal. I am glad it is not an issue we have to deal with much. We adjust quickly when staying elsewhere, however.
Donna, In LA, it’s probably like in the Washington, DC area. Nobody lives in Washington, so they have to go there every day.
And the people who work in Maryland live in Virginia.
And the people who work in Virginia live in Maryland.
No kidding!
Me. I’m one who lived in Virginia and worked in Maryland.
L.A. is sprawling — it’s really a vast region, all connected by looping and multi-storied freeways.
There are actually a lot of folks living in the heart of the downtown high-rise area now, numerous hipster-style condominiums have gone up in the past couple of decades. Of course, that’s pushed the massive skid row district around a bit … 😦
But in general, a whole lot of people live here and we have to (and like to, on weekends) go places. 🙂
The worst of the commute coming back from my weekend trips to Hollywood is the stretch of the old Hollywood Freeway (101) which is now too small and always bumper-to-bumper until the transition onto the 110 that goes through downtown and heads south
It’s still crowded heading south for the next 25 miles to the LA port, but at least that freeway has the toll lanes (eventually), allowing those who have paid in advance (me!) to speed past much of the congestion.
The states on the east coast are teeny tiny, I was always amused how many you could go through just on a drive when i was visiting my friends back there. Wheee.
Out west, we went big. Big territories, big states, with mountain ranges & deserts. You don’t just drive from one to the other all that easily. 🙂
Miniscule, I’d say 😉 Ontario is over 400,000 square miles in area, which is part of the reason I’ve never been out west – you have to drive for a couple of days just to get out of the province in that direction (and forget trying to reach Hudson’s Bay, there aren’t any roads up there). But, we’re a few hours from the U.S., and have driven through New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky, all the way to Tennessee in one day.
Chas, after you drive Texas from one end to the other, everything else looks small. My husband, to my amazement, has never had that experience. I remember it well as a child. We’d get to New Mexico (we’re in a new state!) and then we’d get to Texas (we’re in a new state!) but the view after that seemed endless and dreary, hour after hour of Texas, especially when the speed limit was 55. We did it multiple times, some of them trips to Texas but many of them trips through to the other side, as far as New England once, and once to Chicago, etc. I’ve gone through Texas by car once as an adult, right after my mother died, only that time I did the driving as far as Dallas, and then my sister and I went the rest of the way with our little brother. (And then we did it back the other way a few days later.)
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🙂 😦 Rain. !!
We’re thankful for the rain. This entire area was in serious drought. They were talking water restrictions. A guy on the radio said we were down over eight inches from normal.
A little over a week ago, a front moved in. My rain gauge had three inches the Friday we left for Greensboro. I emptied the gauge.
When we returned on Tuesday, my five inch gauge was full. I emptied it.
Last I looked, I had 1.5 inches more.
‘It’s still raining.
We’re very thankful for the rain. But wish we could share some with Donna and Michelle.
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🙂 I’m not driving down from Williamsburg today.
That was the schedule.
It was a tough trip Tuesday, but not as bad as it would be today.
One thing about long trips in nasty weather that people don’t consider is that:
You can’t use cruise control.
When I was young I would drive twelve hours with my foot on the accelerator. I had forgotten how tiring that is. But we have several convenient safety features now.
Cruise control.
Right side mirrors.
Signal seeking radio dials.
Adjustable seats.
It’s so much easier now and you miss them when you can’t use them.
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I have not used cruise control in years.
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🙂 Husband and Keva encountered a skunk on their morning run!!!
🙂 Keva ran over and the skunk faced him and stomped his feet. Keva stopped, listened to husband yelling and came back
🙂 No spraying!!!! and the skunk wandered off into the field
🙂 They were nose to nose – husband said close enough to touch!!!!!!!!
🙂 Keva gets even more treats today
🙂 The skunk deserves some too, but I’M not going to give them to it
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Good dog. Good skunk.
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I’ll say.
My dogs haven’t been sprayed in over a year.
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🙂 Misten has never been sprayed or quilled.
😦 She would say it can’t be worse than the bath she had to undergo this week. (She only gets about one bath a year, but she takes forever to dry.)
🙂 We had great weather for the fair.
😦 We have a dreary, misty, blowy day today.
🙂 Younger daughter declared it soup weather, so she is going to make soup and I don’t have to cook today. (She already cooked once this week, but she enjoys cooking.)
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NancyJill escaped just in time. This has turned into a humongous mess.
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I heard you were getting some rain.
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🙂 Exciting news: We have a 50% chance of rain on Sunday AND it’s only going to be a (Brrrr) chilly 70 degrees. We’re preparing to bundle up.
🙂 Took Carol on a round of errands today (returned books to the Hollywood Library — where she checked out more; Dollar Tree — I was tempted to buy a toy squeaky rat for Annie but didn’t — and then lunch at Denny’s on Sunset).
😦 Major traffic, though — it took me almost 15 minutes just to inch my way onto the freeway from my house with 3 huge cruise ships in port and a big event also being held on the Iowa; then, all lanes of northbound traffic on the freeway were stopped for a police chase, we sat for about 10 minutes before we were allowed to proceed.
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We had traffic the other day, coming back from Moscow. The folks were headed out from the combine derby. We saw twenty cars just on the stretch from Craigmont to our house, about fifteen miles. It was tedious.
But I understand the combine derby and the farm truck races were both exciting. A few of the farm trucks overturned almost like they were in a derby and one driver broke his leg. Ouch.
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Yes, sometimes I find a car or two on the roads here, very confusing when you are used to driving wherever the road is smoothest.
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Very true, Jo. We don’t like to drive behind anyone for the dust during the summer months. We joke when there are more than a few cars on the road. I must say, rush hour traffic is not a fun thing with which to deal. I am glad it is not an issue we have to deal with much. We adjust quickly when staying elsewhere, however.
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In LA we were just born to ride. 🙂 From the South Bay to the Valley, from the West Side to the East Side …
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Donna, In LA, it’s probably like in the Washington, DC area. Nobody lives in Washington, so they have to go there every day.
And the people who work in Maryland live in Virginia.
And the people who work in Virginia live in Maryland.
No kidding!
Me. I’m one who lived in Virginia and worked in Maryland.
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L.A. is sprawling — it’s really a vast region, all connected by looping and multi-storied freeways.
There are actually a lot of folks living in the heart of the downtown high-rise area now, numerous hipster-style condominiums have gone up in the past couple of decades. Of course, that’s pushed the massive skid row district around a bit … 😦
But in general, a whole lot of people live here and we have to (and like to, on weekends) go places. 🙂
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The worst of the commute coming back from my weekend trips to Hollywood is the stretch of the old Hollywood Freeway (101) which is now too small and always bumper-to-bumper until the transition onto the 110 that goes through downtown and heads south
It’s still crowded heading south for the next 25 miles to the LA port, but at least that freeway has the toll lanes (eventually), allowing those who have paid in advance (me!) to speed past much of the congestion.
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The states on the east coast are teeny tiny, I was always amused how many you could go through just on a drive when i was visiting my friends back there. Wheee.
Out west, we went big. Big territories, big states, with mountain ranges & deserts. You don’t just drive from one to the other all that easily. 🙂
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Donna, some of the states are small, but not teeny tiny. Except Rhode Island.
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I guess it’s relative. Teeny Tiny to us. 🙂
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Miniscule, I’d say 😉 Ontario is over 400,000 square miles in area, which is part of the reason I’ve never been out west – you have to drive for a couple of days just to get out of the province in that direction (and forget trying to reach Hudson’s Bay, there aren’t any roads up there). But, we’re a few hours from the U.S., and have driven through New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky, all the way to Tennessee in one day.
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Chas, after you drive Texas from one end to the other, everything else looks small. My husband, to my amazement, has never had that experience. I remember it well as a child. We’d get to New Mexico (we’re in a new state!) and then we’d get to Texas (we’re in a new state!) but the view after that seemed endless and dreary, hour after hour of Texas, especially when the speed limit was 55. We did it multiple times, some of them trips to Texas but many of them trips through to the other side, as far as New England once, and once to Chicago, etc. I’ve gone through Texas by car once as an adult, right after my mother died, only that time I did the driving as far as Dallas, and then my sister and I went the rest of the way with our little brother. (And then we did it back the other way a few days later.)
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We sure are convenient!
😉
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My state (Conn.) is the third smallest. 🙂
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We drove faster than 55 across Texas . . . but it still took all day!
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