Some heavy rain here this weekend, but no reason to sit clustered at home!
This above is my car's driver window. I love to hear the rhythmic beat of raindrops on the roof.
Rare to get a pair of Oystercatchers out in the open. normally they hide in the rocks!
A Kelp gull flying in the rain!
Our late afternoon sky!
Yes, rain is wet lol, but there are always much life and fun to be had in the rain and some of our farmers are dancing in the rain after the prolonged drought that we had.
Strange how life works, as what the one seriously dislikes, the other adores!
Rain on the car is soothing. I remember sitting at a place called The Bluff at Victor Harbour a few years ago with Faith. It had started as a decent day but a storm front came in. We watched it roll in over the sea and sat through it in the car. It was a pretty cool day over all.
It's nice to have some, (rain), in a dry country like Australia and I assume yours is about the same as far as rainfall goes.
Here's what I'm doing right now. Watching a documentary on the Silk Road with Faith and Cleo sleeping on my feet.
Thanks for dropping by this week and sharing a little bit of your weekend with us.
!ENGAGE 25
Bet it was a great experience in that car.
So, I see that Cleo is also your shadow and my shadow Troy sleeps next to my chair here, as this is what we are doing now.
Marian is marking thesis's and Troy is trying to stay warm next to my chair lol.
We have the little transistor radio playing in the background and now and then the sun peeps through the rain clouds!
Seems like a nice little work environment! Cold there too huh? Been 14 here all day, 8 now, so the heater is on.
Cleo is never far from us...I don't mind; She's a good little friend.
Yeah, we are now at 13 but no heater as electricity is expensive here.
Looks like now in spring season, that the winter is back.
Animals are the best judges of people my friend!
Well, you guys and your cold temperatures. The brass monkey is quite safe outside tonight. We are, however, in a cooling trend.
It's darn near sweater weather, I'm thinking.
41c is very similar to our African summer weather Sir Tom and I think you know that some parts in the country here move beyond 50C
We have just , or are trying to say good bye to winter, but it's a battle for supremacy down at the southern tip of the continent.
Up north they are in the late 20s and early 30s already.
We got to 50C a couple of days this summer, which is normal for us. What was abnormal was the pure number of days 43 or higher (our 110f). Phoenix doubled their previous record to something over 40 days. It was a long grind this year.
Much of North America is cooling now, and we have snowbirds arriving regularly (people that winter here and summer in the north). Soon there will be way too many people here and I'll be praying for the hot weather to return. I'm never satisfied :)
Yes, so you guys are also striking records with the strange weather patterns Sir Tom.
2019 was our hottest year on record. They have not done 2020s records yet, only in January again.
People have learned from the examples set by the birds to migrate to warmer areas in the winter lol. Our summer December is around the corner and then there is no parking open at the beaches again, They also swamp this place.
So, I feel for you with all of the people around!
Sam and I had our second 'come now' session of the fall. When there is a high speed desert vehicle in the near neighborhood I want him right by me. Many of those guys drive like they are in the Baja 1000 and I don't want Sam hit. He remembered perfectly from the spring...
Lines. Soon there will be lines everywhere. Sigh.
Sweater weather...You sound like my granddad - Loved the hear and at 41C would be saying, hmm, it close to perfect, but another few degrees would be nice... He did it to annoy people. It worked.
Now there's a likely looking weekend. At least as I can remember weekends. I'm old and have a hard time remembering that far back :)
I'm slowly getting there, old, and when I say slowly I mean quickly! 🤣
ENGAGEtokens.Thank you kindly @galenkp
I like rain as well as the next guy, but we haven't had any at all here since March. Which is not abnormal for us :) We get so little annual rainfall that we can never be considered in a drought. 7/8ths of Arizona is in drought conditions and our corner isn't :)
Those are beautiful photos PC. I'm really glad you stopped in here today.
Well you have certainly selected the right corner to stay in Sir Tom.
Thank you for the compliment and the welcome.
Some great shots there! :)
Thank you kindly, almost matches yours 😀
I was just pondering your post. Rain on a car roof is pleasant. Rain on a motorcycle helmet can be problematic :) It gets really hard to see really fast, particularly if the temp drops and you start making fog inside your face shield.
I actually have a pair of gloves with a little teeny squeegee strip sewn into the seam on the left thumb for cleaning your face shield :) It doesn't work worth a diddle but the gloves otherwise are quite good.
Oh yeah, I know exactly what you mean about that helmet visor Sir Tom.
I used to travel to work every day in all weather conditions on a 60km return journey.
In the old days no helmets were worn and the rain used to sting the face like a thousand bees, so we wore goggles and wrapped scarfs around the head.
Can you believe that I never wore gloves? Even in winter.
Then with the helmets the fogging up was always a problem and it was worsened by a tinted face shield. So snails pace with a flipped up open visor and a handkerchief wrapped over the lower face was required 🤣
Oh and a pair of glasses lol.
In the 'olden days' I didn't wear gloves, either. Modern equipment is such a God send as to be unbelievable.
A couple of years ago I was headed for my brother's in Washington. I was in the last 50 miles of 1500 when the rain hit and the temp dropped 30f (maybe about 10C). I decided I could be in a hot shower in an hour so didn't rain proof or do anything.
I had to stop when I was shivering hard enough to input steering. So I put my face shield on, and the waterproof jacket and gloves (it was way too late).
The good old days just weren't that good in some respects.
Hahaha, yeah those shivers were really a thing of note lol.
I can see that you are a real biker and yeah, at times the weather had many surprises for us lol.
I stopped riding in 1980, which is a while ago, mainly due to a near death accident with injuries that lasted a few years and then became corrupted by car driving lol.
Took my brother in law's bike for a few spins and also my son in law's Harley recently, but never got another bike of my own.
But let me tell you that the old days wearing only jeans, t-shirt and sunglasses on a hot summers day, those bike runs were pure pleasures.
I don't have many miles without a helmet. I started riding at 13 and my mom had one rule. Wear a helmet. I bought a Bell for $29 because of the ad campaign "Do you have a $10 head? Buy a $10 helmet." :)
Jeans, t shirt and shades. I've got lots of miles like that. Leather jacket bought at a pawn shop that was so stiff I could hardly zip it for the winter. Those zippers were cool, but they leaked like crazy... I'd buy a newspaper and put the sections I didn't want to read on my chest for a little wind protection...
Today I am a believer in armor. I have a mesh jacket for summer and a wonderful riding suit for foul weather. I've got pants, but my favorites are armored jeans. Kevlar in the butt and thighs and zip pockets for knee pads. My summer boots are lightweight but I have a pair of waterproof (they really are) mid calf boots that are wonderful. And always gloves now days.
Wow, at 13 I was on my daily bicycle 🤣
I got married young after the army and had to buy a bike as I couldn't afford a car.
So you have a mountain of more riding experience than me Sir Tom.
Never had a leather and only a Denim jacket, so in winter I wore 2 jerseys under the jacket lol.
You seem to be professionally kitted out nowadays and it is always a good thing to wear protective garb. One never knows as over here people have very little respect for bikers. I always give them a wide berth!
I don't have many pictures of me :) This is a picture of my Foul Weather jacket. I bought it from a guy that quit riding but it was built in 1986. Pretty good stuff.