For a short time yesterday, I thought the rains and the clouds had gone away…to come back another day.
So I started to hang my clothes on the clothes line to dry….FOOLED! The rains came down and down and down—again!
This cold miserable weather even has the summer birds wondering why in the world did they come back so quickly–it feels like winter.
We even have the wood stove going again it’s so cold.
Although, I must admit, everything is greening up and looking lovely (if we don’t get a freeze) and the weeds are in heaven!
Today the renters move in! I am doing a Happy, Happy Dance. A joyous dance! YAY!
Your friend in a wet and soggy world,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
You are so good at finding a bright side even when it is raining on you. No wonder so many rainbows come to visit your place. Happy Mother’s Day!
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Happy Mother’s Day, Marianne! Thank you
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Hanging out clothes and washing our car used to be a sure way to make it rain, but it hasn’t helped in the drought. Send rain our way, but keep the cold. 🙂
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Haven’t seen hanging clothes in a very long time. I remember my mom hanging clothes in the late winter, early spring and freezes would come along. My blue jeans would stand in the corner, next to the little floor heater, like the bottom half of a person thawing so I could go to school.
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love those beautiful birds! hooray for renters!
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Kind of a mixed up spring we’re having this year.
But, not much snowpack – 53% of overall, and 29.15% for April in the CO mountains AGAIN, so the water may be a rare commodity again this year.
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Your clothes got an extra rinse! We have snow forecast…what is up with this weather? Hope the sun shines for you! We could use a week or two of rain:)
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After a dry time we have had three inches of rain in the past week and the rivers here are to the top of the river banks. That little bird is exuisite.
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Mother Nature needs a calendar! 25° @ 4am with lots of snow frozen to the trees 😦
But, Happy Mother’s Day! May the sun shine!
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Is that a goldfinch?
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We came out in sympathy today 🙂
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Boy, you sure did. Hail is a terrible thing. I hope your damage isn’t too great.
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Seen worse Linda – we’ll survive 🙂
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Rainwater is the softest rinse water for laundry…. 🙂
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Yes, but it doesn’t do much in getting the clothes dry enough to iron. Oh, well, there is sun today!
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We are very cold, windy and wet here too, but it is coming into winter so we have to expect that. Unlike you in Spring!
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Now you hunker down and we break forth!
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Oh, that has happened to me. One time I hung the laundry out, only to have it rain for two days. Things got so wet they were hanging on the ground and had to be washed again.
*hugs*
Be safe and thank you for all you do!
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Light to steady rain is excellent for clothes that are hanging
on outside lines. Cleans them right out and gives a freshness
to them.
That is a very attractive bird – what it is?
Cheers
Colin
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It’s a Bullock Oriole, Colin! Sings a much delightful song.
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Funny how you can be rainy, soggy and fed-up on one hand and doing the Happy Happy Dance on the other! Life is like that! All mixed up. Weeds ADORE rain, don’t they?? When I get back to France after the wet wet spring, we have to pick our way through a jungle of weeds taller than we are…until I get around to “dealing” with it. Take that, weed!! Get ready for battle…
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It seems like hanging out the washing has gone out of fashion the last few decades. We still do that, but this being Africa, we have loads of sunshine. Our clothes dryer is used in dire emergencies only. There is just nothing as good as the fresh smell of bed linens dried in the sun and wind.
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I need to move there…warmth all the time, even warm rain…heavenly!
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Yes, very good for the old bones.
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Hey Liinda .. something about clothese lines! Happens to me all the time 🙂 Lovely little yellow bird. I do hope your weather gets better. We are chugging into winter. eek, the only good thing is, boots and jackets! Take care ..
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Boots and jackets…Yes, the standard fare for wet and mud 😦
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And we are horribly hot. 90 in May? For several days?
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A topsy turvy spring I guess
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Our coloRado kids said yesterday that they had snow after a week of rain. He said ‘so gray, we might as well be in Seattle’ ( they moved from there to get away from the gray). DIL messaged me this morning that it is supposed to be 70 this morning and the snow melted already. Hope yours is improving too. The clothesline pic is so good… Tells the whole story right there.
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Oh honey that clothesline picture is art worthy!!!!
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That bird is so pretty! So happy you have renters now…I would say now you can put your feet up and relax but it is spring on the farm. 🙂
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That it ’tis! With Sunshine all along thankfully
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