Famous Blue Raincoat

It has rained 18 of the past 24 days

Vegas - monsoon season

But holy holly bells....

 love the dampness 

and lower temps 

but dang it all

my hair

 a giant frizzy ball

enough!

Sitting in my comfy chair, 

burning my volcano candle, 

listening to pitter patter 

on the bushes just outside the window,

smelling the rain and

listening to an old favorite album

Cohen friends 

do you know about this?

Give a listen anyway - and those of you

immune to LC...

Crank up the volume 
stay with it until the end
for percussion
you can finger drum on the desk

close your eyes

listen to it rain

RAINDANCE

Rain Glorious Rain

I'm praying this rain puts out the fire in our mountains.

It  always happens this way,

right after the fourth, cool down a bit and then rain.

I am working on some custom canvases.

French doors wide open so I can 

enjoy the sound on the tin roof.

Old movies on the tube, 

and when not, I switch to Mathis.

The best "drink your wine

and bawl your eyes out CD",

and then you replay it

then switch to  

Joan Jett

to say my musical taste is diverse

is 

well

right as rain

Fallish

It rained a little yesterday, giving me hope.

They say it will be in the 70's today.

Do I believe them?

I am putting out touches of fall.

I sold off nearly all of my Halloween 

over the past couple of years, so

it is only gourds and pumpkins now.

The last of the homemade pumpkins from the shop.

I did keep this rare black and orange

linen scarf just to put out in October.

An impulse buy I have grown to appreciate.

I kept a few : D

See the plump white in lower left?

My former bathroom towels hehe

Kitchen counter tote gets a nod to the season.

My pumpkin shade comes out for soft nighttime lighting.

 

The porch table trough abounds with more gourds.  

The thunder booms are now shaking the house. 
It makes Howie paw the tile as if he has a hidden bone? 
It also makes him poop in the garage, 
refusing to use the dog door during a storm.
BAD Howie!


Lately only the NW part of town gets the storm,
but I have hope. I climbed the tall ladder this am,
cleared the gutters and I'm good to go for a torrent.
Bring it on!!!

A small repeated plea.

PLEASE, PLEASE, pretty please, put your email

INTO your profile.

I answer every comment unless I cannot find you....

and Brenda, you left me such a sweet note the other day

but I cannot reach you.

So many of us request this, and

make note of it in our comment message, plead with you, etc..

Please hear us. 

Your blog experience will improve 

It will <3

z

Finally

It rained today.

It lasted about 4 minutes and was accompanied by winds

that battered my ash tree and thunder that made

the pups go crazy running through the house and barking.

I don't care that it was a mere 4 minutes.

To me it's a sign that Fall is just peeking around the corner.

Honest, for sure, absolutely.... this time.

Finally

Fall

To celebrate I cut up 11 Granny Smiths and Galas,

tossed them with 1 tsp cinnamon and 1/4 cup sugar and 1/2 cup water;

chucked it all in the cooker and after a few hours,

rough mashed 'em and lit my favorite sugar cookie candle.

I believe I can hear the leaves

softly falling to the ground.

Finally.