Another Good Grief One! ☺️

Good Grief.  There was an almost week of rain...it lacked two days without rain, and now it has started again right after I got a walk in yesterday morning.  The forecast says it will rain Saturday through Saturday next.  There is flooding in the immediate and wider spread areas.  I am up on the highest point so that particular thing is not affecting me personally.  And three of my 90' tall  trees are gone from my yard...so I don't have to worry about them uprooting and falling on my house any longer.  However, all of the trees in this part of town are equally tall, so looking at my header, if those should fall toward the house, the house will get hit but only by the tops of the trees.

The woods behind my home is called a privately owned greenbelt.  Those of us living along the street each own our woods down to the city and County line. When the town was built in the 40's, most of the trees that were on the mountain and hills were left standing.  They are very very tall.  It's an arborist's dream here in the town.

But this rain...whew.  Our weather system usually has and does come streaming up from the Gulf.  Hence it was always 47 or so inches of rain annually.  But now it is creeping toward 70 inches.  A record was set last year and I believe the year before.  If you choose to live in an extremely rainy area, then that's what you get.  But when you are used to moderate rainfall with plenty of alternate sunny days, it is hard to deal with constant nowadays gloom and rain.  One can hold an umbrella and walk but I find that takes a lot of the joy out of being out doors walking.  There's the gym, but outside of physical movement, not my fave place to be.   Most of all, I would love to see the sun more than a day, two at the most every 14 days.  The lights in my house are on all day except the rare days when there is sunlight.  It's gets wearing on the mood, guys.

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