It’s a case of animals starting to pair up in Spokane. If anybody’s building an ark, I have yet to hear it, but we’re more than soggy. I don’t think I’ve seen such a spate of rainy weather since we’ve been here. And our stripped front lawn? We’re in trouble. Our neighbor’s weeds are proliferating like crazy, and it’s too boggy to run the tiller. We’d planned to get a truckload of mulch, and put down weedcloth, and maybe kill a little of what’s going on, but it’s too much. Now Jane’s coming down sick with something, and there’s so much to do, and I’ve got to get out there and rake the area I hit with the mattock, because in all the rain, the dandelions I got out are trying to re-root. Quel mess!
Rain, rain and more rain…
by CJ | Jun 5, 2010 | Journal | 21 comments
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Argh! Your poor yard!
And tell Jane to take it easy! There is some weird form of Walking Pneumonia going around. My Uncle got it — officially diagnosed at the Dr’s. And my cousin also caught it. We’re all in Western Wa, so it’s not that far away.
You seem fine beyond being very tired and a bit coughy. My cousin says her lungs also hurt a bit after any hard work, so tell her REST.
– Resa
At least it isn’t raining methane or acetylene, like on Titan!
I don’t know if you’ve seen that NASA is saying there is possible evidence for methane-based life on Titan. It’s far from certain, but very interesting.
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/06/why-is-the-hydrogen-exiting-titans-atmosphere.ars
There’s a link in that article to the original NASA announcement and a scientific paper.
this morning, we had a severe storm come through, I measured .85 inches of rain in less than 30 minutes. That constitutes an alert for a flash flood. It’s been rain after rain after rain, last night at 11:00 a severe storm with hail was headed our way, yesterday afternoon, another storm had passed through. The fields are saturated, there’s no place for the rainwater to go except into the storm ditches and then on to whichever creek takes them to the Great Miami River and on down to the sea. It’s too bad we don’t have the Miami-Erie Canal any longer, some of that water could be diverted through the canal and thence to the flood control dams in the Miami Conservancy Area reserves.
GreenWyvern, shades of Ben Bova’s “Saturn”. That whole series was scary….but if they find life anywhere, that will be perhaps another nail in the coffin of the creationist theory.
I’m not nearly as worried about the weeds as I am with the grass that’s still not out. Weeds’ roots are contained, grass roots make a mass. Much harder to get out. I’m glad we’ve have the rain for the sake of our new plants, but I’m ready for some sun.
Whatever I’ve got, it’s pesky. I feel pretty good, now the sore throat’s gone away, just croaky. Then, suddenly, I’ll be working and get dizzy. Quel pest.
I hope you feel better soon, Jane.
She’s a mess. Croaky and sore throat, dizzy and a little out of it. I went to Albertsons grovery (never again for that brand!) where we had a great scarcity of items, a greater scarcity of choice, no logical order in the drug department, a 15 minute furor because the checker accidentally put somebody else’s bottle of soda in my lot, charged me 1.25 for it, and they couldn’t find anybody to authorize a cash settlement. Then 3 of my plastic bags tore on the way out the door…I can be patient and cheerful with one of these situations, but I was on my way to grumpy before the second overloaded sack tore. And there was one more to go. The sack quality was so bad (2 of the veggie baglets tore, spilling vegetables, when I was shopping—I didn’t even count that)—that I threw them out rather than use them for waste kitty litter. Those are rotten sacks!
But I got honey-lemon Halls cough drops for the pain, Zicam strawberry chewables for the vitamin dose (zinc), Bengay pain patches for the throat in general, not to mention the neck and shoulder (chiropractor on Monday) and something else, I can’t remember what, for the general throat condition.
And a bottle of Sake, I swear, to cook with.
I started to get some salmon. Rotten quality. I gave up on meat. I’ll boil some more frozen chicken.
heck yeah! Cook with sake. Drink Scotch! 😀
Advice from the proge: Broken rib; go get xrays!
Oh, surely not that bad! You think?
No, no, I think the sore throat thing is definitely contagious. I just this moment noted a little twinge of my own. Sob.
It was inevitable I catch it. You don’t ride in a car with somebody coming down with something for 3 hours and not catch it. And here it comes. At least, hopefully, I’ll be over it nearly as fast as Jane, who is 2 days ahead of me.
How’s the throat, OSG?
I do hate it when you two are feeling bad. Sending you good health vibes as I type.
Thanks, Spence! And everyone. My throat’s better now and the tightness in the chest is loosening up, so hopefully the emergen-C I’ve been downing is going to help it, whatever “it” is, go away quickly.
Hot tea, with honey and lemon. Stat.
I had one of those instances, where a sore throat became laryngitis, then migrated from the throat to the chest, thence up into the sinuses. A full 3 days + weekend of BLEAH! The only funny thing was that I was wearing my official “Don’t make me use my librarian voice” shirt when the laryngitis took effect at work… I did go home.
We DO NOT invoke the sick on anyone, hear that, OSG? Stay well, and CJ and Jane, you get better!
I forgot, if you have no honey or lemon, you can use the bourbon in the tea ‘for medicinal purposes’.]:)
I’d love some of your rain, but the weeds need no encouragement, especially the invasive prickly kind.
Ha!
You’ve hit upon my favorite, never-fail cough remedy. Juice of 2 lemons, then add honey until the sweet-sour balance is correct, then add enough bourbon to double the volume. Gar-awn-teed to fix the cough and ease the throat–and if it doesn’t, you won’t care a whit!
😀
I really hope you both (or all three) feel better soon. I’ve been fighting off stress/fatigue-related cold/allergy/*something* crud, off and on, for most of this year…*not* normal for me. — Antibiotic and decongestant/antihistamine seem to be working this time. On éspère fortement, ferventement.
If there is methane-based life on Titan, it could be so different, we’d have a hard time proving it, even with good evidence. Recently saw “Into the Universe” with Dr. Stephen Hawking, the episode on “Aliens.” Various gas-planet/moon alien ideas presented were gaseous or electrical lifeforms or some sort of membranous, balloon-like things. Then again, they could always send up a sign, “We want your greenhouse gases and bovine flatulence.” It might be a hint. Huh, but can you imagine it, a species where calling someone an old windbag is a lovely compliment? Heheheh.
well, you don’t need to worry about the weeds, once you have the weed supressant and the mulch on, they’ll die anyway! so sorry you two are down with presumably a con bug … you do seem to get sick after these dos … most unfair.
we are to have a week of rain after 2 months real drought here in east anglia, so it’s actually welcome though rather boring. 🙂
I hesitate to report that…I am the very picture of robust health.
*hangs head; feels guilty*
That’s the idea, OSG! Stay well!
Every con we go to, we catch the circulating bug…although we cannot blame the San Diego convention for the gruesome plague that struck us on our return from California this February: that was due to the fact we are both allergic to dogs, chrysanthemums and lilies, and we stayed with Jane’s brother, whose wife was trying to take care of their ailing dog, but had decorated especially for us with a live chrysanthemum and a massive bouquet of stargazer lilies that perfumed the whole house. We took Benedryl, but it availed us nothing. So far every trip recently has cost us two weeks of downtime with nasty colds. And I’m also suspecting Jane is low on thyroid stuff…which might be why I, on an increase, am fighting it off, but Jane isn’t.
Not at all fair — hope you both feel better soon. But watch the Zicam — I used the spray years ago, which initially helped the cold/crud I was coming down with, but then because a very nasty laryngitis with a bronchitis-like cough that lasted about a month and I haven’t been able to smell anything since. I tend to avoid zinc just because, although it does seem to help others.
I recently had a mirror-image attack similar to Chondrite — a massive reaction to mold/fungus/some scary nasty something in a building in Skagway with lovely 100+ year old wallpaper nicely defoliating and descicated with 100+ year old wallpaper paste and God alone knows what else [since it was an old brothel, the imagination is absolutey boggled]. Within 6 hours I had a sore throat with a small cough which was bringing up seriously nasty stuff, then a massive sinus headache with every tooth hurting and then laryngitis within, oh about another 12 hours. Not fun on a cruise ship. Brandy helped — a lot. Helps the sore throat, warms up the chest and lossens nasty stuff, and actually helps the headache [admittedly short-term]. And if you get enough of it, you don’t care how horrid you sound or feel [hehe]. The baby antibiotic round they gave didn’t help much, but at least I never felt stay-in-bed sick.