{"id":697,"date":"2009-04-01T09:11:09","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T14:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/?p=697"},"modified":"2009-04-22T11:15:48","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T16:15:48","slug":"rain-rain-and-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2009\/04\/01\/rain-rain-and-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain, Rain and Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today begins rather gloomy, but a warmer than colder gloomy and we can still use it. Rain. We have needed the rain for awhile, and this past week has really overdone itself in that regard. We first moved to GA in Nov. of 1996, and a year later moved into the house we now live in. We&#8217;ve been through 2 other drought times, with the first the worst, dragged out, and the next one everyone was so reactive about it, it&#8217;s been tough but overall it came down to looking at the lakes, ponds and rivers it&#8217;s evident as to conditions.<\/p>\n<p>We get milk in SC from a dairy in Starr. On our way there we pass the major waterways that border GA\/SC and I&#8217;m very interested to know what that will mean for our next trip (Fri. 4\/01 or Sat. 4\/02) &#8212; what we&#8217;ll see, or not see. I&#8217;d love to see that the brown bottom parts of the rivers are not showing anymore, docks are actually in water, and such.<\/p>\n<p>All this new rain will mean that our yards are going to be overgrown with weeds very soon. It&#8217;s Springtime and greening up tremedously already before all this rain, and even moreso the last week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spring Sidenotes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<h3>Twitterpated Wildlife<\/h3>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Right now as I type I can hear Mr. Eastern Bluebird twittering in the tree outside my window. Blinds are shut so I can&#8217;t see him, but his soft &#038; musky trilling sound is very evidently him.<\/li>\n<li>Earlier I saw the mother cat to the ferals that are living in our backyard. Those kittens are about 6 months old now. They first were noticed with another in the litter and the mother last fall, when they were mobile but very small, living in our crawl space (vent cover had come off giving them access.) The mother stayed with them through winter, and then one kitten wasn&#8217;t around most of the time, mother either, but two kittens stayed. The mother has been coming back again more and more the last couple of weeks, and it&#8217;s very apparent, she&#8217;s expecting again. She&#8217;s a very frightened feral, but at the least will stay around humans. In any case I saw her this morning running to the crawl space access and trying to dive through fast to hide, but she sort of got stuck and had to wiggle that middle part of her through before her backend and tail disappeared. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today begins rather gloomy, but a warmer than colder gloomy and we can still use it. Rain. We have needed the rain for awhile, and this past week has really overdone itself in that regard. We first moved to GA in Nov. of 1996, and a year later moved into the house we now live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[115,122,64,111,121,120,72],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-115","tag-bluebird","tag-cat","tag-feral","tag-kittens","tag-rain","tag-spring"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3120,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2017\/09\/11\/irma-impact-2-w-animation-gif\/","url_meta":{"origin":697,"position":0},"title":"Irma Impact 2 (w\/ animation gif)","author":"Maisy","date":"Monday, September 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Tropical Storm Imra is here. 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Warm the last day or so,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Weather&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Weather","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/category\/weather\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":319,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2006\/08\/30\/rain-rain-come-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":697,"position":3},"title":"Rain, rain come again!","author":"Maisy","date":"Wednesday, August 30, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The rain we were supposed to be swathed with today is below us, not the ernesto stuff, other stuff that was supposed to wet a whole big band of land across the south (not far, but from west to east with north-ish GA being in the middle of it.) 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