When I woke up this morning there was an old man and a strange wooden boat

kindlekitten · 12-10-2015, 06:17 PM

in my lower pasture. when I asked him if I could help him he asked me if he had found Mt. Arafat.

this has been unbelievable! since the week before Thanksgiving we have had the wildest weather! starting out with numerous days at or around freezing, which is fine with me but the winds started. first power outage, which went for almost 4 days for me. since then there has been some kind of storm every 1 to 3 days with some amount of power out. for the last week it has been rain. and more rain and a bit more rain. and some rain on top of that. along with that has been phenomenal WIND!!!! the trees here have a really shallow root base anyway as it is normally wet here but after this summer's drought, those were all loosened up to some extent and those have fallen victim to the storms.

I'm terrified to take a shower knowing that certainly as soon as I am soaped up the power will go out. I'm not sure when I was completely dry the last time. between the wind blowing things around and the horses getting into things, I've just given up on picking stuff up for now that isn't animal threatening. yesterday morning when I woke up I thought that perhaps the rain had stopped as I wasn't hearing "raindrops" on the roof. when I woke up a little more I realised that it was in fact a deluge and it was raining VERY hard. as soon as that reality penetrated, my room lit up. we had an incredible thunder and lightning storm that lasted for close to an hour. in short, it's been nuts!

howyadoin?

wodin · 12-10-2015, 07:01 PM

I thought The Olympic Peninsula was basically a rain forest. Don't you expect to get rain in a rain forest?

cromag · 12-10-2015, 07:33 PM

Watch out for Krackens. (Krakeni?)

kindlekitten · 12-10-2015, 09:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wodin

I thought The Olympic Peninsula was basically a rain forest. Don't you expect to get rain in a rain forest?

not around 2 inches a day several days in a row

badgoodDeb · 12-11-2015, 12:48 PM

Did you tell the old man to leave the strange wooden boat there; you were planning to need it?? How are your cats coping with all of this strangeness?

kindlekitten · 12-12-2015, 03:52 AM

The cats seem to think I am doing this deliberately to inconvenience them. Somehow during one of the worst storms they caught a bird in their catio and brought it in. Sigh

As of the tenth of December we had received 6.33 inches of rain. THAT is a LOT of rain. My yard and getting out to the car look like a bunch of pigs have been rolling in it. I've a bunch of buckwheat to spread in the pastures when it gets a bit better and bought some clover today to put in with the rock that's going to have to go down right in front of the house. I had to put a couple pieces of plywood down as I was literally sinking to my ankles to get to my car. No bueno

12-10-2015, 06:17 PM	#1
kindlekitten Professional Adventuress Posts: 13,368 Karma: 50260224 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!) Device: Kindle, the original! Times Two! and gifting an International Kindle	When I woke up this morning there was an old man and a strange wooden boat in my lower pasture. when I asked him if I could help him he asked me if he had found Mt. Arafat. this has been unbelievable! since the week before Thanksgiving we have had the wildest weather! starting out with numerous days at or around freezing, which is fine with me but the winds started. first power outage, which went for almost 4 days for me. since then there has been some kind of storm every 1 to 3 days with some amount of power out. for the last week it has been rain. and more rain and a bit more rain. and some rain on top of that. along with that has been phenomenal WIND!!!! the trees here have a really shallow root base anyway as it is normally wet here but after this summer's drought, those were all loosened up to some extent and those have fallen victim to the storms. I'm terrified to take a shower knowing that certainly as soon as I am soaped up the power will go out. I'm not sure when I was completely dry the last time. between the wind blowing things around and the horses getting into things, I've just given up on picking stuff up for now that isn't animal threatening. yesterday morning when I woke up I thought that perhaps the rain had stopped as I wasn't hearing "raindrops" on the roof. when I woke up a little more I realised that it was in fact a deluge and it was raining VERY hard. as soon as that reality penetrated, my room lit up. we had an incredible thunder and lightning storm that lasted for close to an hour. in short, it's been nuts! howyadoin?

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wodin Illiterate Posts: 10,279 Karma: 37848716 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: The Sandwich Isles Device: Samsung Galaxy S10+, Microsoft Surface Pro	I thought The Olympic Peninsula was basically a rain forest. Don't you expect to get rain in a rain forest?

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12-11-2015, 12:48 PM	#5
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,545 Karma: 64462893 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	Did you tell the old man to leave the strange wooden boat there; you were planning to need it?? How are your cats coping with all of this strangeness?

12-12-2015, 03:52 AM	#6
kindlekitten Professional Adventuress Posts: 13,368 Karma: 50260224 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!) Device: Kindle, the original! Times Two! and gifting an International Kindle	The cats seem to think I am doing this deliberately to inconvenience them. Somehow during one of the worst storms they caught a bird in their catio and brought it in. Sigh As of the tenth of December we had received 6.33 inches of rain. THAT is a LOT of rain. My yard and getting out to the car look like a bunch of pigs have been rolling in it. I've a bunch of buckwheat to spread in the pastures when it gets a bit better and bought some clover today to put in with the rock that's going to have to go down right in front of the house. I had to put a couple pieces of plywood down as I was literally sinking to my ankles to get to my car. No bueno

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