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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

Hi Bev; We are having rain (sort of...it's raining slush), but it's 36 
degrees. Not a good kind of rain to play in :-)  The kids are home from 
school because the ground (and roads) are frozen, so the rain turns to ice 
as soon as it hits. It's supposed to turn to "rain and snow" later (is that 
any different than what it's doing?), then all snow tonight. This is my 
least favorite weather. I'd rather have it solidly cold, where I know what 
to expect when I walk outside.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 11:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Running water that cleanses the soul


> The pines here are dying from pine beetles.  I put some pictures up on
> my site a while back detailing the damage.
> We got 3+ inches of rain today, and it is still raining hard. It is
> supposed to continue to rain throughout the night to accumulate maybe
> another inch or so.
>
> I spent a lot of time out in the rain today.  There is really something
> to that, playing in the rain....it makes you feel alive, and like a
> drug, it makes you forget your problems...I highly recommend it.
> I was so sickly as a kid that my mother would never allow me to do that.
>  Today, I was so soaking wet that I made up for all 17 years of
> deprivation in one shot.  Of course, I called it creek cleaning, and it
> was an important job because we don't want the culvert to become blocked
> again.. ;)  And of course, it has become such an infrequent event that I
> *had* to take pictures!  It is good to walk around and look at the land
> to see everything under these conditions.  Subtle elevation changes
> become glaringly obvious with water flowing across, and you can observe
> how water runs off, erosion issues, low areas that could be used for
> growing rice<g>, new springs, etc.  I think finding good springs is
> important-you never know when you will need to find water, for yourself
> or your animals.
>
> Tomorrow we have a chance of snow.  I see that up in NE, you already
> have ice and snow. (sorry)
> I doubt it will snow-it has been way too warm-60 degrees today, but I do
> think that things are likely to freeze over tomorrow night when the low
> temps drop into the upper twenties.  There's no school tomorrow in our
> county due to so many roads being flooded..like I said in an earlier
> post, this county is mostly a vast flood plain. Odd weather for January.
>
> Bev
>
>
> Sage Austin | Eureka! Design wrote:
> > Very pretty creek! I like your favorite pic, too. We had some gentle
> >  rain last night. We are still in extreme drought, just a notch away
> >  from exceptional drought. My friends in Austin reported the pines
> > east of them are all dying. Looks like Lost Pines State Park may soon
> >  become No Pines State Park.--Sage
>
>
> --
> "The world is my country, all mankind are my
>  brethren, and to do good is my religion."
>  Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
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