Sunday, July 26, 2009

"Feels Like Rain..."

That it does: feels like rain. It's quite warm, humid, and there are thunderstorms in today's forecast... and for the rest of the week, as well. To top that off we got yet more rain last night and a rather significant amount, too... the Unofficial Beautiful La Hacienda Trailer Park Rain Gauge had about an inch and a half of water in it this morning. Doubtless we got a lot less precip than that. As I said: the Unofficial rain gauge.

So... we're back from Cannon Airplane Patch, having completed our bi-weekly resupply run for beer and food... beer being the key item. I'm also pleased to report the tabs at the Class VI Store and the commissary were nearly equal this time, mainly because we don't buy a pricey bottle of scotch every time we make a beer run. No... sometimes we buy a pricey bottle of Drambuie. Like today.

Side note: I wore my New Belgium 1554 tee shirt today. I also went to the Class VI Store before I went to the commissary. So... the sweet young thing (and she WAS all that, and a bag o' chips) who bagged my groceries and wheeled them out to the car noticed the beer in the trunk and sez "How cool! Your tee shirt matches your beer! Is the beer good?" To which I replied... "Honey, do you think I'd buy both the beer AND the tee shirt if it wasn't?"... followed up with a big ol' grin and a wink. I was graced with a dazzling smile in return. Pitter-pat went my heart...

I was semi-amazed at just how GREEN the landscape is after all the rain we've had in the past ten days. It's not green like the green one finds in places like Upstate New Yawk or New England (mainly coz there are no trees)... but it's green enough. Almost pretty, even. Which, of course, means I should have taken the camera with me so I could have snapped a few vistas to share with you, Gentle Reader. I'm thinking I need to put an American Express logo sticky on my camera bag. You know... something that sez "Don't Leave Home Without It."

Finally... this post's title tune:


Lying underneath the stars right next to you
Wondering who you are
And how do you do? (How do you do baby?)
When the clouds roll in across the moon
And the wind howls out your name
and it feels like rain
And it feels like rain

We aint never gonna make that bridge tonight baby
Across the Ponchartrain
and it feels like rain
And it feels like rain
Ah. Former Happy Days.

11 comments:

  1. It's raibng on Pontchartrain as I type.

    Ah, Drambuie!

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  2. "raibng?" I promise I haven't been hitting the Drambuie -- yet.

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  3. Just starting to sprinkle here, should hit Pville soon. And yes, isn't it GREEN around here!! I have a couple more days of mowing to get done. We moved cattle the other day and they haven't lifted their heads yet from the green pasture here behind the house.

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  4. We could use the rain over here, Buck.

    Love that story about the beer, the shirt, and the girl. Sometimes nothing can beat one of those brief, whimsical moments when a pretty girl smiles at you

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  5. Brought a smile to my face! Sounds almost like the perfect country song: A man, his beer, favorite T-shirt, and a PYT smiling...if you'd have been in a pick-up, it would've gone platinum!

    ;)

    See you in a little over a week for some cigars, beer and a game or ten of pool!

    SN1

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  6. After a hot sticky day here, we are getting rain this morning. Yeehaw! I like the beer/t-shirt story too.

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  7. Getting to be an old critter myself, I appreciate those sorts of smiles more and more every day!

    Disclaimer: Married, happily. Still, the smiles are real nice :-)

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  8. Your weather and ours is about the same right now. We here in good ole New England are about as green as we can be - for the rain we've had hasn't been insignificant.

    No, it hasn't.

    But til now our temps have been far below normal with zero humidity.

    That all changed yesterday - we now have the terrible 3s - hazy, hot & humid. Which I don't like at all. I really should consider moving to the North Pole or something.

    Loved the beer & T story.

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  9. Moogie: I can't think of a better way to spend a Sunday afternoon than gazing out over Lake Pontchartrain in the rain. With or without Drambuie! :D

    Jenny: We didn't get any significant rain until well after midnite here... but it WAS significant, once again. I can imagine your cows are loving this!

    Andy: What? Seattle needs rain? Who'd a thunk it!! And yeah, it's good when a pretty girl and you share an unexpected grin. Or three.

    Buck: re: platinum. Maybe as a song-writer; most certainly NOT as a singer where Yer Ol' Man is concerned.

    A week, eh? Good news.

    Lou: All this rain has made our otherwise low humidity weather an entirely different animal! It's been downright sticky here the last few...

    Jim: I hear ya. Smiles from women, no matter their age, are gratefully accepted around here.

    Kris: Ya just gotta roll with the summer stuff. Pretty soon you'll be back to shoveling snow... :D

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  10. "Honey, do you think I'd buy both the beer AND the tee shirt if it wasn't?"

    Nice...educate the youth of America in the finer things, and hopefully, perhaps...there remains a real hope for the future of beer snobbery.

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  11. My mission, Jay... is keeping The Free World safe for beer snobs! And the beer they drink. :D

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