Long intro into the pictures: proving that that every storm has a silver lining, mushrooms have sprung up right up against the porch screen. We often have odd types of mushrooms, some quite large, around the yard, but this time, the rest of yard is free of them and for the first time they've come right up close and personal to say hello.
I believe these are of the type normally frequented by leprechauns, but so far nary a trace. I've tried to catch them off guard by sneaking up at odd times with a flash light, but not a bit of luck. Perhaps they've reasoned, why travel to Florida when we can stay home and deal with rainy weather . . . Trouble is if they come back for the sunshine, they won't find any toadstools . . .
. . . oh and speaking of rainy weather, my laptop gave up its ghost yesterday causing no end of travail, so I had to make up my mind, Vista or no Vista. I decided to have the local Computer Maven order me something that runs XP Pro, but is Vista-ready. It's too late to change the order, so Zen like, I'll learn to want, nay crave, whatever it turns out to be. Like any new parent, I'll post pictures of the new baby when it arrives a couple of days from now.
How am I doing without a wireless laptop? Not well really.
Yesterday was a blur of junk food and angst.
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What dramatic weather! I love thunder storms but we get very few here. I hope you and your property are safe from flooding and that it all passes soon. I look forward to seeing the pictures of the toadstools - perhaps I'll see the leprechauns hiding under them as I have a lot of Irish blood!
Re the laptop, isn't it frustrating when they go wrong? My printer/copier/scanner cum photo processor has developed a fault although it is only a couple of months old. These complex machines are great when they work but seem to go wrong so easily. The maker doesn't even bother to repair them, I'm getting a replacement. BTW my daughter has just got Vista, she was doubtful beforehand but loves it now.
My problem with Vista is thatit won't work with either of our printers, nor Office 2003, nor Norton's ... I can convert should we decide to replace our all our support machinery.
I'll post the pictures in a new post. The accountant is getting edgy.
Yes, we get rain like that here. Rain so thick that the overpasses have a quarter inch of water on them.
I'm still avoiding Vista. Maybe I'll upgrade to the next release when it comes out.
e, for some reason i can't view the pictures. I don't know if the problem is at your end or mine.
Posted them in a new post.
I grew up in Seattle, and because it rains less there than in New York City, I had never owned an umbrella. That changed when I moved out East. It's telling when the storm drains are large enough to swallow a dog.
There's a certain point where, if it's raining hard enough, the drops seem to rebound and form this layer that floats about 2 feet off the ground.
I grew up in New York and lived in Connecticut and Vermont, and believe me there is nothing like this kind of rain up there. It rains in sheets and hard. BTW - I thought it rained 24/7 in Seattle.
It does, but softly. A couple years back Seattle set a new record for fewest sunny days in a year's time - around 60, IIRC.
There are many places in the U.S. that have greater annual rainfall totals than in the Northwest, it's just that it comes in buckets other places. It's often just misty drizzle in Coastal Washington and Oregon.
Something not many people know is that Vermont is second only to Alaska in sunlight.
It's also overcast and misty a lot of time, hence the Green Mtns.
Those gorgeous pictures in Vermont Life calendars and magazines are taken on those rare low humidity blue sky days make all the other days fade in memory.
Oro's right: Lot's and lots of drizzly gray days. Me and my brother once wanted to organize the Soren Kierkegaard Winter Solstice Poetry Slam and Suicide Fest, but everyone else was too buzzed on coffee to go for it.
So that's why there are all those coffee shops on every corner.
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