Life in the Desert

Serious rain!

It’s been raining all night. Now, and quarter to nine in the morning, it seems to be letting up a bit…although the sky is still plastered with gray clouds.

Ruby the Corgi is conkered out on the sack.

Haven’t heard a word from my honored son. This being a Sunday, though, I hope he also is conkered out, in his own sack.

Kinda grateful that I was forced by the driver’s license fiasco to drop off the choir. This is NOT a day when I would like to be cruising the (un)lovely streets of Phoenix. Gray and soaking wet, it is.

It’s the sort of weather we used to get, once or twice a year, when we lived on the shore of the Persian Gulf. Sure am glad I’m not there now!

😮  What a hell-hole that place was. Hot and humid all summer long. Other times…oh, my. The sh!t-head kids made the weather look mellow by comparison.

I was a weird little girl — wanted to grow up to be an astronomer, not a mommy standing in the kitchen baking cookies. And that was just too, too much for the little monsters at my school. They ganged up to make my life utter misery: month in and year out. Because the schools out there ran on a 12-month schedule, there was no relief from the bullying. Horrible time of my life!

When we got back to the States, the kids in the San Francisco public school where I was despatched didn’t know I was weird, and so they never tormented me. Amazingly, I even had friends, if you can imagine!

That never happened during the entire hideous 10 years that we spent in Arabia.

Y’know…. If you can see that your child is miserable at school, do consider transferring him or her to another school, one where the inmates don’t know the kid. A whole new start is one of the kindest things you can do for an unhappy child.

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Darn it! Was gonna walk up to the nearby Mexican supermarket this morning: strangely enough, one of my favorite places to shop. But that weather out there is just too gross to risk hiking around in it.

Well. We have enough food to last me and the hound for another couple of days. And…heh…rain in Arizona doesn’t last a couple of days.

More like a couple of hours… 😀

And so…back to loafing!

Comin’ on to 4:00 in the afternoon, a stormy evening is building up. Last night, a large part of the Valley lost power. Looks like we could be looking at a repeat performance.

Hmmmm….  I’d planned to join my neighbors across the street for this evening’s trick-or-treat antics. LOVE watching the kids in their costumes, and the whole Hallowe’en shenanigan.

But...hmmmm….. Maybe not.

In a truly major storm, Ruby the Corgi will be terrorized. That’s even if she’s safe in the house.

The neighborhood kids just ADORE her corgihood — seriously! So we’d planned to take her over to the WonderAccountants’ place when I go over to help hand out treats this evening. That is charmingly fun…

But… All it would take is one reasonably close-by lightning strike, accompanied by a blast of thunder, to scare the bedoodles out of this little dog. And that will cause her to take off, like a rocket, for points north of Las Vegas.

Darn!

That being a given, I’m having a raft of second thoughts about joining the neighbors for the trick-or-treat shenanigans.

Wunderground expects rain to start around 6:00 p.m.

Nice timing, eh? 😮

Apparently heavy rain is expected in lovely Phoenix tonight: one to two inches. Hey: that’s a lot, for Arizona! 😀

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AND NOW….

It’s a true soggy-doggy night!

Rain has been pouring for the last hour or so. And I do mean pouring. 

This has put the eefus on the trick-or-treating, alas. The Wonder-Accountants and I did lurk in their garage for an hour or so, socializing and watching for customers. But hardly anyone came by, even before water started to leak out of the sky…  Now, though, buckets of water are coming down. And we have flooding every which way from Sunday.

So, we folded our camp and headed into our respective shacks.

Ruby and I are now officially loafing on the bed.

Too bad, really. I do love all the kids gussied up in their outfits and the teenagers running amok. Hallowe’en really is my favorite holiday.

Darn!

Gosh!!  What a freshet is carrying on out there!

Low, thick clouds. Thunder near and far. And water falling out of the sky…big-time!

Wunderground has emitted a “Severe Thunderstorm Warning” (eeek! Be scared, be very scared!). Meanwhile, the local newscasters are predicting relatively light rain (up to a quarter of an inch) tonight, but nearly an inch of rain tomorrow night.

Just this moment, water is pouring out of the sky. Similar conditions are predicted for tomorrow — one to two inches per hour. 

Alas, that may put the eefus on the Hallowe’en hijinks. I do love Hallowe’en: all the kids dressed up, the teenagers running amok, the parents trying to keep up. 😀

But if this keeps on or repeats itself tomorrow, we’ll have none o’ that.

Meanwhile, I haven’t bought candy for the trick-or-treaters. 

And just now I’m debating whether to do that tomorrow…or not. If it’s gonna be pouring rain tomorrow evening, I sure don’t want to go out and spend a lot of money on candy.

I don’t eat the stuff, myself. So If I have bags of it sitting by the front door, I’ll have to take it over to some charity and donate it. Not the end of the world, o’course. But…not something I’d choose to diddle away cash on.

Too bad, though, if tomorrow night’s frolicks are rained out.

Hallowe’en is my favorite holiday. I do love seeing the kids and the teenagers all gussied up in their costumes, frolicking around the neighborhood.

Welp…we shall see. Online forecasts seem to indicate reduced chances of rain tomorrow…maybe only 25%.

Sooo…hmmmm….  I guess tomorrow a.m. I should run over to the low-rent supermarket to the north, grab a few bags of candy, and then if any is left after the weekend, just donate it somewhere.