Wetness from the sky!
Nov. 1st, 2008 11:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deborahjrossWe're having our first real rainfall of the season, and are all but dancing in the streets. The fire danger is over, and we're hoping hoping hoping this is the first of many storms that will bring the drought to an end as well. The air smells wonderful, and all the denizens, two and four-footed, are happily curled up with book or tail-over-noses or The Next Chapter.
All of which is a nice way to recover from mild achies following flu shot yesterday. Dave, who had exerted himself digging up the alley plot, seeding it with cover crop -- clover and such -- and covering with hay, spent an hour or so in the hot tub (in the rain), but I just went to bed. The therapy jets would have been nice, but I wasn't up to running around in the rain in no more than a towel and rubber clogs. [The alley plot is actually common property of all those upon whose property it abuts, but in practice, the neighbors are quite happy for us to make use of it. The ground is quite hard, having been compacted by decades of heavy trucks and such like. Corn grows well there because its roots are shallow, but we want to do more; hence, soil amendment by leguminous crops.]
The rain was very polite; it held off long enough for Halloween. Boulder Creek is so spread out, there really aren't neighborhoods for trick or treating, so the entire downtown, all 4 blocks of it, becomes a community party. Merchants decorate their stores wonderfully and hand out treats. One of the realtors takes polaroid pics of the kids as they come by. Whole families, all in costume, walk in a circuitous route, up one street, across, and then down the other side. Volunteers in orange vests and highway patrol direct traffic. Everyone was in a fine mood. I drove through the outskirts of it on my way back from visiting Rose. We watched a little of the latest Dr. Who, while I finished up a child's hat -- two strands, one wool blend, one alpaca -- for afghans for Afghans I'm using up bits of wool yarn that I got for the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
livelongnmarry afghans.
All of which is a nice way to recover from mild achies following flu shot yesterday. Dave, who had exerted himself digging up the alley plot, seeding it with cover crop -- clover and such -- and covering with hay, spent an hour or so in the hot tub (in the rain), but I just went to bed. The therapy jets would have been nice, but I wasn't up to running around in the rain in no more than a towel and rubber clogs. [The alley plot is actually common property of all those upon whose property it abuts, but in practice, the neighbors are quite happy for us to make use of it. The ground is quite hard, having been compacted by decades of heavy trucks and such like. Corn grows well there because its roots are shallow, but we want to do more; hence, soil amendment by leguminous crops.]
The rain was very polite; it held off long enough for Halloween. Boulder Creek is so spread out, there really aren't neighborhoods for trick or treating, so the entire downtown, all 4 blocks of it, becomes a community party. Merchants decorate their stores wonderfully and hand out treats. One of the realtors takes polaroid pics of the kids as they come by. Whole families, all in costume, walk in a circuitous route, up one street, across, and then down the other side. Volunteers in orange vests and highway patrol direct traffic. Everyone was in a fine mood. I drove through the outskirts of it on my way back from visiting Rose. We watched a little of the latest Dr. Who, while I finished up a child's hat -- two strands, one wool blend, one alpaca -- for afghans for Afghans I'm using up bits of wool yarn that I got for the
livelongnmarry afghans.
