Category Archives: Weather

Tarps To The Rescue

Posted by Santi on December 9, 2011 Comments Off

This weekend I was planning on taking a load of stuff to the local outside flea market that is still open since it hasn’t turned bitter cold yet. I have taken a good amount of time to gather up and sort a bunch of stuff, besides deciding on the price to ask and then tagging it all, and have the van loaded ready to go. So what really is upsetting is that the weatherman is telling us that there is a slight chance of rain coming our way. Not that I ever put any faith in what any weather person predicts, but it still makes me a bit uneasy.

I decided to go ahead and continue with my plans, but now I have to gather up some tarps to take along to protect everything in case it does rain. I’m afraid that I might only have those ugly blue tarps out back, I’d much prefer to have clear tarps so that people can still see what is on the tables and continue selling to the customers that still continue to shop even through rains. And I really don’t like the look of those blue tarps, never have, seen to many in the yards of trailer parks I guess.

Rain Chains For Christmas

Posted by Santi on November 18, 2011 Comments Off

Have received a request for a rain chain for Christmas from my Aunt Peggy this year, who happens to be the greatest Aunt of all times in my book. She is my mother’s eldest sister and has always been like a second mother to me for as long as I can remember. She has always lived close by, while the majority of my relatives have moved out of state, some out of the country entirely, so I have had her in my close personal life since day one. I know that I can trust her and depend on her for anything and I would do anything in my power to help her in any way that I can so I’ve started looking around for these much anticipated rain chains that she has been talking about here recently.

I have found a company online that has these chains rain on their website that I have enjoyed looking at today, I had no idea that these rain chains were getting so popular and that there would be such a wide variety of them available. Now I have to try and decide which one to pick for her. You’d think it wouldn’t be a hard task since I know her so well, but I do struggle with making discussions such as this when it comes to something for some one other than my self.

Rain on the Scarecrows

Posted by Santi on October 27, 2011 Comments Off

The weather has finally turned cold and wet. I have to admit that summer is totally gone and that winter is fast approaching.

We had a freeze warning last week, so I’ve moved all the potted plants indoors. I have not yet seen frost on the ground, but I don’t want to take any chances.

Last night it dropped about 20 degrees and started raining. Today is a cold wet day that screams for comfort food. I could really go for meatloaf or mac and cheese tonight.

Rain Rain – Please Find Your Way to Texas

Posted by Santi on September 8, 2011 Comments Off

This has been a horrible summer for Texas and the Western states. I have been reading about fires in Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado ever since March. These states have been suffering a long drought and hundreds of wildfires all summer.

The best thing that could happen to Texas is for one of the hurricanes down in the Gulf of Mexico to come ashore and drench the entire state for 2 or 3 days. It is critical now. Over 5,000 people have been evacuated from the Austin area and a record number of homes have been burned – almost 500 homes in just the past 3 days. This is horrific and my heart goes out to the good people of Texas.

Only One Good Day

Posted by Santi on September 3, 2011 Comments Off

This is the big Labor Day weekend when everyone wants to have a last fun weekend outdoors. But unfortunately, the weather forecast is for cooler days and lots of rain. Today is not raining yet, but you can feel it in the air and you know that it is coming, sooner or later. Let’s hope we all get at least one good day out of the weekend to do things at the lake or the beach.

We are going to head out to the river and just let my daughter splash around in the shallow water by our favorite picnic spot. The river bottom is not too mucky and not too rocky at this particular spot. I cannot tell you where this special spot is – it is our family secret and we don’t want a lot of other people to come there and spoil it.