Terrific Weekend

 Especially when you consider the time of year, a much better weekend weather pattern would be hard to imagine. Nothing really much in the nature of an ARCTIC BLAST! BOMB CYCLONE! POLAR VORTEX! seems to be immanent. Not even a POLAR POTATO! That's nice. 

Of course, there is still plenty of time this winter for an ICEAGE APOCALYPSE! Or a SNOWNADO! Or, a FLESHFREEZING FRENZY!! The media would salivate all over that sort of thing. I hope they will be disappointed this winter. I would hope that nature would not feed the news ghouls. The news ghouls have enough to rejoice over. 

Nice Weekend

We could have pretty decent weather right into the end of December, unless something unexpected happens. The rain was fairly decent. We only got about half-an-inch but other areas around here got a lot more. And there are more rain chances next week, with temps above freezing, so no snow or ice. I hope that turns out to be the case. 

 I've got some kind of thick green grass growing in the backyard that has completely displaced the Bermuda that used to grow there. This stuff survives cold and thrives with very little moisture. Where it came from I do not know. But I like it. I might try putting a plug of that stuff in other places, in the front yard. Let it take over. 

Soggy Day

 But the rain was much needed and we'll have a full day of it today and a full day of rain tomorrow. And Thursday night it stops. No freezing or sub-freezing temperatures in the entire period, so no ice. No snow. Just rain. That works. 

It is not so bad, then. 

Rain On The Way

 Rain, and maybe a lot, and no snow, no ice, no sleet, no freezing rain-- just rain, and that's not bad. I accomplished many things today, too! That's certainly not bad!

The Cold Spell

 That cold spell lasted all of one day, with one rather cold morning, and we were out of it and improving rapidly. Wednesday and Thursday chances of rain are very good, and it will be RAIN, and not snow, not sleet, not freezing rain. It will not be cold enough for that, and that is all to the good, as the playa lakes are low again. This sort of weather at this time of year likes me well. 

It likes you, too.