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Bart! Is it going to RAIN!?!

Melissa Northern Italy zone 8

2 months ago

Just checked the weather forecast for the country, which claims real fall is about to begin, with rain, snow at high elevations, up here in the north and reaching down into your part of the country. Here it's been mostly cloudy for several days, but only last night did the rain start, lightly, and now continuing with greater decision. I do hope you see the same! I hope we both get lots of water!!

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ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9

2 months ago

Heartiest best wishes that Italy will now have the rain from north to south that it so desperately needs. I know the feeling when your body finally is able to relax, after weeks and months of tension. It's a good thing!

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rosaprimula
2 months ago
We have had rain for over a week. Grass is growing like Topsy and weeds are germinating everywhere. Wet knees again. Best of luck for you guys (I would LOVE to garden somewhere warm like Madeira). I could be a Californian girl.
bart bart
2 months ago
We did get some-I hope and pray with all my heart that it will rain constantly for the following weeks...
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Thanks for the comforting thoughts. I really do appreciate it. Our dogs are indeed part of the family, or maybe you could say they ARE our family. We have kids, but they are grown and with families of their own, so they aren't here. The puppies are always here, always willing to set with me any time I want or always willing to play, any time I want. And they never hurt your feelings.... These were old dogs. We picked them out of a litter of 12 that a nurse who worked with my sister had found in her pasture. Heeler/ lab cross is what we always figured. We brought them home to comfort the old boxer we had at that time who was lonesome for PJ, our doberman who had been killed in an accident. Sandy, the boxer, was not impressed. We named them for Bart and Lisa Simpson, of the TV show fame. It just seemed to fit. Lisa was the smart one, very reasoning and quick. Bart was laid back, absolutely the most honest dog I have ever known. He just did whatever, right in front of you. Lisa would wait until your back was turned, then climb over the fence of their little pen. LOL Having two from a litter is a challenge. Sandy did finally accept them, and they let her boss them around. When she died at the age of 16, they laid on her grave every day for almost a week. And now they are lying next to her. Memo, I am so sorry for your loss. At least I know what happened to my pups, you have the extra burden of not knowing for sure what happened to them. Are the new dogs puppies? I am sure they will grow on you- how can they not, with the personality that God gave Jack Russel Terriers? It just takes time. Again, thanks so much for your kind thoughts. Janie
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Melissa Northern Italy zone 8
Original Author
2 months ago
Good luck to us all....

DD reports buckets of rain in Milan this month, which doesn't do us a lot of good, though it's splendid in itself. A friend who lives higher up in the hills, in a cooler area, apparently has been getting more rain than we have, which is a good thing, for her and her neighbors, and for the area reservoir, which I'm amazed is still delivering water to households.
Melissa Northern Italy zone 8
Original Author
2 months ago
It IS raining! Started last night and is forecast to continue through the day. We've had over an inch so far, which by the starved standards over the last sixteen months or so is actually quite a bit. I wanted a sort of sub-deluge, which doesn't appear to be coming, but this ought at any rate to water the plants, including the several babies put in the ground this fall.

Bart, how about you?
bart bart
2 months ago
Yes, it's raining here, too. I am so, so grateful...however I am afraid to chat about this blessing,out of "scaramanzia" (Google Translate calls this "superstition", but that isn't a very precise definition,but that will give the non-Italian speakers who read this at least an idea...) Fingers crossed!!!!!!
ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
2 months ago
bart, I know what you mean, you don't want to scare the rain away. I'm wishing you and Melissa and all of Italy a wonderfully rainy winter season.
Melissa Northern Italy zone 8
Original Author
2 months ago
I just stuck a finger in the basin we set out to measure the rainfall: maybe 1 1/2". Not bad, considering how drastically dry we were. And the morning is dawning brilliantly clear, a welcome change after way too much fumy, hazy weather, offering neither rain nor sun. I have to see the doctor this morning, but look forward to wandering around the garden later today, inspecting the refreshed plants.

By the way, happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

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