Perk Side.

[Heavens Wraith]

Friendly place far from the head aches of immigration were you can let down your hair and be yourself.

[Marie]

well i'm tired of all the rain for one.

[Heavens Wraith]

Yeah I know.. but the rain is so pretty and relaxing... and it hides all of us with lovely pale skin from the garish sun

[ARodrigues]

I love when it REALLY rains. Like the sky turns black and it really storms..As long as I can sit inside the house with a glass of wine and play UNO with my husband.

[arcoiris]

We suffered the worst drought in fifty years here in Georgia. Our spring crops were ruined and a few farmers didn't plant at all. Local churches gathered to pray for rain. First once a week, then twice a week, and finally daily at 7 a.m. Neighbors turned in nieghbors for watering their lawns. I abandoned my own garden. Irrigation only goes so far. The courthouse almost burned when a flower bed caught on fire from a cigarette. A local lawyer put it out with his morning coffee. Most of you know that the Okeefanokee Swamp in Georgia and North Florida burned for weeks, covering 903 square miles. In the hottest parts of the wildfire, the soil itself was on fire.
Then it rained for the first time in 4 months. My coworkers and I ran from the office out into the street. Other workers from neighboring offices stood on the sidewalk, all of us gawking at the clouds like turkeys.
My boss's children ran in circles on the lawn (partly because they knew I would not make them water the flower beds). It rained for three days afterwards. The Great Swamp Fire of Georgia was put out. There were tractors all over the highways heading out to plant, snarling traffic and waving happliy at the irrate drivers. Everyone bragged on how much rain they got in their particular are, even people whose incomes did not depend on the weather.

[Pinkpig]

"..It never rains in California..."

That is one of the things that I miss so much from the Ohio Valley. There is nothing better than a good old summer thunderstorm with lightening and a gulley washing rain.

That is one of the things that I enjoy so much when I go back for a visit. I can always count on 1 or 2 while I am there.

[Pinkpig]

We suffered the worst drought in fifty years here in Georgia. Our spring crops were ruined and a few farmers didn't plant at all. Local churches gathered to pray for rain. First once a week, then twice a week, and finally daily at 7 a.m. Neighbors turned in nieghbors for watering their lawns. I abandoned my own garden. Irrigation only goes so far. The courthouse almost burned when a flower bed caught on fire from a cigarette. A local lawyer put it out with his morning coffee. Most of you know that the Okeefanokee Swamp in Georgia and North Florida burned for weeks, covering 903 square miles. In the hottest parts of the wildfire, the soil itself was on fire.
Then it rained for the first time in 4 months. My coworkers and I ran from the office out into the street. Other workers from neighboring offices stood on the sidewalk, all of us gawking at the clouds like turkeys.
My boss's children ran in circles on the lawn (partly because they knew I would not make them water the flower beds). It rained for three days afterwards. The Great Swamp Fire of Georgia was put out. There were tractors all over the highways heading out to plant, snarling traffic and waving happliy at the irrate drivers. Everyone bragged on how much rain they got in their particular are, even people whose incomes did not depend on the weather.


What a wonderful story...for a few minutes I was there with you. Thank you.

[Chula]

That is why I like Kansas it's never a boring moment we have rain, thnuderstoms, tornados, and most of all SNOW!!!!! we got it all!!! Wanna come to Kansas?????? Not Missouri (that was for Ellie)

[arcoiris]

Chula,
Would you believe me if I told you I have never seen snow in my life? LOL!

[Chula]

QUOTE=arcoiris;2742]Chula,
Would you believe me if I told you I have never seen snow in my life? LOL![/QUOTE]


:wha: YOUR FREAKIN KIDDING ME?!?!?!!? OK that is it when winter comes your taking a mini vacation hear me?!?!?!?!

[arcoiris]

Oh, what the snow might to to my poor ol' Georgia soul! I might waste right away at the first touch of it, like the Wicked Witch of the West!

[Chula]

You will be fine!!!! You won't melt, the snow will from your warm heart!!!!!

[Heavens Wraith]

For those who really want to see snow.... http://youtube.com/watch?v=ccKRy8PmOJ8

[arcoiris]

So they tell me! They say that it's not as bad as our own winters here since there is no bone-chilling humidity. Actually, our winters have turned warmer. My great-grandmother once drove a carriage over the river to visit her parents at Christmas. It was iced over straight to the bottom. (That little story was one the first ones I remember being told to me as a child.) It's hard to think that it ever happened. I can overwinter a hibiscus, which was unthinkable only 5 years ago. I have a thriving tropical garden, including banannas, but my more native plants are hurt by the long season. My father went to a convention not too long ago where scientists had predicted that this area would become a savannah climate due to global warming. The only thing that would keep us from a desert was an occasional hurricane that would dump 10 inches of rain on us a year. I have moved from water loving annuals to drought tolerant mediteranian plants that our high humidity should have killed, such as lavender, with great sucsess. My father has changed his farming methods, crops , and crop rotations already.

[angela256z]

Chula - Just lok at the pics. I hate the snow. i live in Utah while growing up and it was horrible. We never got a snow day from school either. I had to walk my butt up the hill in snow to catch the bus just to go to school and get to hot cause the heat was like 90 degrees. Snow is better in pictures.....But I love the rain that is why I live in the NW now.

[aguafria]

:)Well, I'm from Northern Virginia and we have a little bit of everything. I love it all (except maybe the heat). From the rain to the snow the thunderstorms and especially the changing leaves. I really love snow. I'm 31 and last year I went out to the yard alone and create my own snowman. My best friend lives in Wisconsin and I promised her one day I'll go back and visit and take a ride on the snowmobile.

[mi_corazon]

Chula - Just lok at the pics. I hate the snow. i live in Utah while growing up and it was horrible. We never got a snow day from school either. I had to walk my butt up the hill in snow to catch the bus just to go to school and get to hot cause the heat was like 90 degrees. Snow is better in pictures.....But I love the rain that is why I live in the NW now.

I totally know what you mean...and Utah says they have the best snow on earth...well whatever...I could do without it! I LOVE the rain. Huh...maybe I need to move, but never to any place like Kansas or Missouri...I hear that only crazies and lushes live there (LOL :bounce:).

[egonzalez1975]

The weather changes so much around here that if you keep yourself tanked up you never notice!!!!! :bleh:

Actually growing up in southern Maryland was horrible when it snowed. Since we were just off the Chesapeake Bay the air would just cut right through you. It was COOOOLLLLLLLDDDDDD!!!!! Here in Missouri it really isn't that bad. I usually wear a light jacket when it snows.

[mi_corazon]

Hey...I thought that simlie was off limits...Chula might get excited...hehehe!

[arcoiris]

Well, well, well. We had a nice storm last night here. So good of a storm that half of my centuries old oak fell down. Thankfully, it didn't fall on the house...yet. It was 17 ft in girth. I suppose we'll have to cut all of it down, which makes me very sad. It was the biggest in the county. I always used to give direction to my house by saying "the little yellow farmhouse under the great big oak tree".

[mi_corazon]

Oh how sad...I love mature trees! Well...at least it didn't fall on your house...that could have been a tragedy.

[arcoiris]

It is sad. It's leaning over the house now, so it'll have to come down. There's no way to save it. It has been here before my great grandparents came here. Actually, my friend just suggested we make a piece of furniture out of it to remember it by. I thought that was clever. Maybe a bed like Odysseus'.

[Heavens Wraith]

I had quite the night last night at work. For those who don't know, I am a dispatcher for the fire dept in my city. This house caught on fire, and so I ended up sending 9 fire trucks to it, but it was too late. All they could do was make sure everyone was out and then make sure it didn't spread. I hate it when we can't save the house.

[arcoiris]

That's awful. Our house burned twice when I was small. It's a hollow feeling to loose your possesions and your pets.

[Heavens Wraith]

it was sad....but at least they made it out.