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silverthorne) wrote2004-06-30 07:34 am
silverthorne) wrote2004-06-30 07:34 am
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Busy but taking a break anyway
Bleh...been up since four, been at work since four-thirty. Good thing I have coffee...
The weather the past few days has been stunning, if a little wet. After roughly six years of drought, our part of the Lone Star State seems to finally have remembered that it's supposed to be swamp land and not
desert.
Two days ago was the most memorable. As usual, I was headed for work before the sun was up, but there was just enough light to see the sky. It was stunning. Right above, the sky was clear--beautiful stars. Around this lovely patch of sky was cloud cover--low enough to be thick fog. You could see one or two bright stars through it, but that was about it. Gave the whole thing an ethereal look.
The coolest thing though was that you could see thunderheads that were probably at least several hundred miles to the east, rising above this misty covering, rising above into the clear part of the sky. And some of those clouds were hosting a merry little lightening party.
There really are no words to describe it other then mind blowing...
Later in the day, the clouds arrived in earnest, and we had rain and lots of it. Although it was grey most of the day, It was still beautiful. and in the afternoon we had a near repeat--the sky cleared above us again for a little while, leaving a near perfect hole where you could see the bright blue sky and the fluffy white tops of the clouds.
Then it closed in on itself, like the hatch of a space-age ship, and started to rain again. It was a nice relaxing rain too..made me want to go take a nap...
Makes me wish I'd been the one to think up how nature should look...lol.
Of course, all the rain makes it rather hard to get the lawn mowed when it's raining every other day--frightening thought when you're renting a lot where the management will force mow for fifty bucks a pop if they feel your grass (or what passes for it here at any rate) is too tall.
And they have mowers that won't dull their blades out on wet grass...
Yargh.
Well, that's about it...it's time for me to go back to work, finish out my stuff so I can help the guys out front since we're short by about three people today...bleh. I'd rather go home and hang out outside in a hammock, watch the rain from under a dry over-hang...just enjoy it.
My hand has writing all over it already from people asking for things that I'll have to issue out in the computer to keep our stock level records accurate...it looks like a little red and blue cracked glass sculpture because of it...
Pretty cool, actually.
Well, off I go...
The weather the past few days has been stunning, if a little wet. After roughly six years of drought, our part of the Lone Star State seems to finally have remembered that it's supposed to be swamp land and not
desert.
Two days ago was the most memorable. As usual, I was headed for work before the sun was up, but there was just enough light to see the sky. It was stunning. Right above, the sky was clear--beautiful stars. Around this lovely patch of sky was cloud cover--low enough to be thick fog. You could see one or two bright stars through it, but that was about it. Gave the whole thing an ethereal look.
The coolest thing though was that you could see thunderheads that were probably at least several hundred miles to the east, rising above this misty covering, rising above into the clear part of the sky. And some of those clouds were hosting a merry little lightening party.
There really are no words to describe it other then mind blowing...
Later in the day, the clouds arrived in earnest, and we had rain and lots of it. Although it was grey most of the day, It was still beautiful. and in the afternoon we had a near repeat--the sky cleared above us again for a little while, leaving a near perfect hole where you could see the bright blue sky and the fluffy white tops of the clouds.
Then it closed in on itself, like the hatch of a space-age ship, and started to rain again. It was a nice relaxing rain too..made me want to go take a nap...
Makes me wish I'd been the one to think up how nature should look...lol.
Of course, all the rain makes it rather hard to get the lawn mowed when it's raining every other day--frightening thought when you're renting a lot where the management will force mow for fifty bucks a pop if they feel your grass (or what passes for it here at any rate) is too tall.
And they have mowers that won't dull their blades out on wet grass...
Yargh.
Well, that's about it...it's time for me to go back to work, finish out my stuff so I can help the guys out front since we're short by about three people today...bleh. I'd rather go home and hang out outside in a hammock, watch the rain from under a dry over-hang...just enjoy it.
My hand has writing all over it already from people asking for things that I'll have to issue out in the computer to keep our stock level records accurate...it looks like a little red and blue cracked glass sculpture because of it...
Pretty cool, actually.
Well, off I go...