The last post is the WINNER!

[Jimmy]

 

[Dan From Smithville]

WA is the only state I've never been to. I'd like to go see the wildflowers.

If they are like the desert blooms of the US, I can imagine the interest. I'd like to see them too.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

As I was in one of the offices working on something, I thought I heard two other people typing rapidly and loudly on their keyboards at the same time. Turns out it was raining. No thunder though, unfortunately. Nonetheless, I appreciate it.

We had thunder like the earth splitting open and lighting with no rain and then 15 or 20 minutes later, the same with rain coming down in torrents.

Your description fits pretty well with some that I've had when you get a nice, quiet and steady rain. The most pleasant kind for relaxing to in my view.

 

[Wu Wei]

Well still winning...still ornery..... might as well log off and go do some exercise..... while maintaining high levels of orneriness of course

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Goods morning, lovelies!

Good morning to you too!

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Bonne journée à toi

And a good morning to you as well!

 

[Wu Wei]

We had thunder like the earth splitting open and lighting with no rain and then 15 or 20 minutes later, the same with rain coming down in torrents.

Your description fits pretty well with some that I've had when you get a nice, quiet and steady rain. The most pleasant kind for relaxing to in my view.

Not surprising... you are a bunny after all Hasenpfeffer.... bunnies tend to be skittish..... as for me... I am fascinated by thunderstorms, I will sit and watch them.... I even sleep better during a big storm

 

[JustGeorge]

I want someone to run errands with.

Why must life be so damned solitary?

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Not surprising... you are a bunny after all Hasenpfeffer.... bunnies tend to be skittish..... as for me... I am fascinated by thunderstorms, I will sit and watch them.... I even sleep better during a big storm

I'm with you. I find them fascinating and watching them worth giving my time to.

That is one of my favorite things about travelling in the West. I recall the first time I crossed into New Mexico and saw a large storm that looked like it was right in front of us, but was 50 or 60 miles away. It was something to see.

 

[Jimmy]

Losers!

 

[Kathryn]

I did love the big storms I experienced in Texas. But the trade off is that it's still hot through October and sometimes even November!

 

[sun rise]

Good morning all you 2 and 4 legged people

 

[Kathryn]

Well, there are strange men from a pest company climbing all up in my attic and my cats are both closed up in a room. Good times.

 

[ChristineM]

Sitting in the shade in the courtyard stuffing my face with peanut M&Ms, this is winning

 

[Dan From Smithville]

I did love the big storms I experienced in Texas. But the trade off is that it's still hot through October and sometimes even November!

When I was five we took a family road trip from Missouri to Louisiana via Mississippi. I don't recall where in Mississippi, but were driving in the sunlight and right in front of us was a wall of rain. We drove into a pretty intense local shower that had fairly discrete edges that I've never seen the like of since. I've looked. I've hoped. But that was to be my only experience of what was so impressive to a little boy that he remembers it even now...a few years later.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Well, there are strange men from a pest company climbing all up in my attic and my cats are both closed up in a room. Good times.

And you are on this forum with a strange guy that likes to look for insects too.

Just another indication that we cannot get away from what bugs us.

 

[Kathryn]

When I was five we took a family road trip from Missouri to Louisiana via Mississippi. I don't recall where in Mississippi, but were driving in the sunlight and right in front of us was a wall of rain. We drove into a pretty intense local shower that had fairly discrete edges that I've never seen the like of since. I've looked. I've hoped. But that was to be my only experience of what was so impressive to a little boy that he remembers it even now...a few years later.

I would often see walls of water like the one you are describing when I lived in Texas, but I have also seen a wall of water like that here in SW Ohio.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

I have to get cleaned up. I'm taking a much-needed four day weekend. I stayed up late. Slept in. Got to spend some quality time here. Now to get ready and enjoy my time. Even accomplish some things for me.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

I would often see walls of water like the one you are describing when I lived in Texas, but I have also seen a wall of water like that here in SW Ohio.

I keep looking. Trying to recapture that wonder.

 

[Daemon Sophic]

Well still winning...still ornery..... might as well log off and go do some exercise..... while maintaining high levels of orneriness of course

Did someone say, ornery bear???
We can solve that problem right quick.