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[tugrik]

Around 1pm I had the urge to leave the office. Unsure why, as it wasn't really a lunch hour. I drove around aimlessly for a bit, and finally stopped at a little park behind my office, and wandered around it. Oh. That's why.

The winds started. The front was coming in.

After a good six+ months of No Rain (and indeed no real weather other than sunny and clear), the first honest storm of the winter was on its way. No wonder I was all flinchy. It's a good thing.

I got home about 7pm and looked at the sky a bit. There's an extremely localized weather phenomenon we get in our little pocket of the Almaden Valley. A 5-mile-diameter hole opens up in the cloud layer, giving a nice round spot of clear sky that hovers over our neighborhood. It happens about 6 hours before rains fall, even if rain is already falling only a few miles away. I think it's caused by the shape of the mountains and the way they channel the winds. The air had the most wonderful new-rain fragrance.

It wasn't long before revar got home. Revar wanted rain too. "1 AM," I told him. "But it's been ALMOST raining the whole way home! It's going to rain any time now..." "Nope. 1AM." Later that evening, we dug the Davis weather station out of its box and hooked it up, including a new battery and a proper resetting of the datalogger. This winter's going to be recorded right, for a change. I'll post a URL for the weather-monitor page when we get it rebuilt.

12:47am. Rain starts to fall. Being a quarter-hour off isn't bad.

I can't believe how much I've missed this. *flops out on the floor, nose and horn out the back door and in the rain, just enjoying the smell*

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It's raining (but not pouring...)

[noressa.livejournal.com]

*curls up, closes eyes and just listens to the rain falling*

It's raining up here too! YEA!
*does a happy little wet-foxy dance*

[xot.livejournal.com]

How does a wet fox smell?
(with her nose of course!)
There's an umbrella in the closet btw.
Has anyone seen my black greek fisherman's hat?
(the hat is black, not the fisherman. No I didn't get it from a greek fisherman, that's the style. ...)

horray for rain. Horray for life.
Seeing the gutters here around 2:30 am, I was kinda happy to be living on the second stroy.

Color me jealous

[tcreynolds]

Sounds great, I'm tired of dusty trails. Supposed to come here tonight/tomorrow morning. We'll see.

[jumpyfox.livejournal.com]

I am a person who is normally afraid to drive by myself. I am seldom the one driving when two people are in the car. For some reason back in 2000, I had this unbeleavable urge to just go explore and drive aimlessly. I drove through all kinds of weather and I went into all kinds of neighborhoods that no one in their right minds would go into. I drove to places an hour and a half to two hours away just to go there and drive around aimlessly and sometimes I was thinking a lot about the comic ASB and it's authors among many other things. I guess I had to do it to find myself. When I was done, I then became afraid of driving again.