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Island Woman MJ
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Posted: Tue Jul 15th, 2008 12:29 pm |
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The rain I mentioned yesterday afternoon was only in pause mode. It continued on and off for quite a while afterward; enough to bail the dinghy again.
94L looking not quite as much a potential TD this morning, but still keeping a some *maybe* alive. For an invest, it's been a bit of a cliff hanger with its unknown track and ability to strengthen to a hurricane according to some models.
Today a tree-cutter friend is supposed to come and clean up (and out) some weed trees that I've wanted to deal with for ages. It will be strange to have them gone, but I can't wait! I know the other trees in the yard will be happy and not hearing the scritch scritch of branches on my tin roof will be good also.
Everything in the yard (and around the island) is responding quickly to the rain. This bush looked dead for months. Then last week, some tiny leaves...and now...
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Posted: Tue Jul 15th, 2008 01:28 pm |
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Skies got darker and whiter, if that can happen, and it did...and a white out of rain is coming up the bay. Glad I decided today would be a Closed Others day...
Looks like the riyoh <sp? I never remember how to spell that!> gets to live another day.
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Posted: Tue Jul 15th, 2008 04:29 pm |
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| Similar to Ft. Lauderdale weather today! Even rotation over the beach!
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Posted: Tue Jul 15th, 2008 04:39 pm |
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Sure you're not just spinnin' your wheels??
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Posted: Tue Jul 15th, 2008 08:11 pm |
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I checked the dinghy and even though it has seemed torrential and there is more water in there than should be, it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. Since it started raining while I was looking, I'll let it go until the next break, which might be right now...drip drip drip. Obviously, no tree cutting today!
Hopefully, 94L really is disintergrating and will just be a rain carrying wave passing by us. At least the NHC at 2 p.m. seemed to point in that direction. (addition here...some in the weather community think it might be ramping up again...don't dismiss it yet).
But being home, and sort of forced to be inside most of the day (a rarity), I've spent my time doing the pre pre stuff, that plastic tub filled with the stuff that I'll haul out of here to someplace considered safe as safe is. Those little objects, books, papers that hang around, almost invisible because they are just part of the walls, the space. But stuff I'd be sad to lose. Then there is the ton of generic stuff I really don't care about, thankfully. All replaceable, all pretty unimportant. "Do I care if this blows away? Nope. Won't touch it then." Lucky for me, I have no neighbors on the *first* wind side of me and the house rather far off on the other side isn't next to me but much closer to the road, so I can't hurt anyone if the whole place goes flying - at least I don't think so! It would be very hard to imagine that if I hadn't seen the aftermath of Andrew (I wasn't around here for Hugo, though I've seen the pictures - but as those who have been in a major hurricane know, pictures and reality bear little in common - those realities do cause you to think beyond your own space when you've seen an airplane wrapped around a tree...2 miles from where it was parked).
So a productive rainy day in Paradox enjoying the greening, the unusual cool temps, the sound of rain on the roof, the sight of the cat curled up like rainy day cats should be, while keeping an eye on what might happen next.
My brother just sent me an hilarious package that, while he didn't say, was obviously filled with hurricane *supplies*. Powered lime juice, small packets of pancake mix, smoked oysters, sunflower seeds, pistachios (oops, they won't make it past this week), wine bottle stoppers, instant ice pack for injury packet, hair ties, a *deluxe 8 piece nail implement set* (hey, you never know when an extra pair of tweezers or tiny scissors might be needed!), a fly swatter, and what the hell is up with the box of prunes??? and a bunch of other stuff that made me laugh. Perspective is a beautiful thing.Attachment: Zing!.jpg (Downloaded 14 times)
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