Will some of you beach people puh-leeze send some of your sunshine and balmy temps out west? We are on day 43 of a frog strangler, with only two days of sunshine. A record for our area. We have landslides all over the place, waterfalls up in the canyon behind us that have never before existed, and flooding everywhere. Nothing is blooming yet, including grapevines. It just keeps coming down, with nothing but more rain in our foreseeable forecast. Noah, where are you and can I have two of the cute animals?
We are high and dry in our location so far as flooding goes. But the fieldstone in our fireplaces has wicked moisture from the outside chimney so that the lichens on the rocks have all turned emerald green...like living in the Amityville Horror house
The hot tub has overflowed onto the back deck. Kitty has given up her outdoor daytimes, perhaps for good because she has a look of perpetual disgust. And Butter thinks it's all great fun, wants to splash in all the puddles and run through the rain. Even he looks suspicious about some of those puddle depths, though.
I will certainly welcome my upcoming trip to Grayton and I promise to not complain about the heat. Jim Cantore is already talking about hurricanes and I can't stand it. We spent last summer watching all the hurricanes hurtle toward Florida, then spent Christmas/New Year's in Florida, watching the New Year's Day flood in the Napa Valley. We watched a rowboat float past a friend's house in Old Town Napa on CNN. Help! Help! Help!
We are high and dry in our location so far as flooding goes. But the fieldstone in our fireplaces has wicked moisture from the outside chimney so that the lichens on the rocks have all turned emerald green...like living in the Amityville Horror house
The hot tub has overflowed onto the back deck. Kitty has given up her outdoor daytimes, perhaps for good because she has a look of perpetual disgust. And Butter thinks it's all great fun, wants to splash in all the puddles and run through the rain. Even he looks suspicious about some of those puddle depths, though.I will certainly welcome my upcoming trip to Grayton and I promise to not complain about the heat. Jim Cantore is already talking about hurricanes and I can't stand it. We spent last summer watching all the hurricanes hurtle toward Florida, then spent Christmas/New Year's in Florida, watching the New Year's Day flood in the Napa Valley. We watched a rowboat float past a friend's house in Old Town Napa on CNN. Help! Help! Help!
Wish I could help, Donna...I am sending you good thoughts...hopefully some good vibes...
Haven't been back out. I really need a kayaking kompanion. 
in Northern CA. In response to your question, the average annual rainfall in the Napa Valley is about 35 inches. We are way, way over that now and have another month to go before it stops. People are always surprised to learn that virtually all of our rainfall occurs between late October and mid-May. When it stops in May-ish, we do not get another drop until late October. Our water supply is snowmelt from the Sierras and rainfall that is collected in a rather small reservoir. Grapevines are irrigated with groundwater wells and we try to treat-and-reuse and/or recharge as much as is feasible. Our hills are green and flowers bloom in the winter months, then the summer and fall bring the "golden" hills. (Brown to people not born in CA.) My mother will forever refuse to believe that it doesn't rain here for six continuous months of the year. She just blows me off on that one.