Since I\u2019m not going to discuss the Super Bowl in this blog posting, I believe I\u2019ll take Professor Higgins\u2019s mother\u2019s advice and stick to the weather and my health.\u00a0 My health is fine, thank you very much, so that pretty much leaves us with nothing but the weather.<\/p>\n
This posting will not come as welcome news for people who are still having to shovel snow and who are looking down the barrel at six more weeks of winter.\u00a0 I\u2019m not good at doing winter which is one of the reasons we\u2019re snowbirds.<\/p>\n
This past weekend it was dreary in Tucson.\u00a0 We had four days of rain\u2014a lot like Seattle weather only wetter.\u00a0 Those four days of rainfall amounted to 2.5 inches of rain right here in our neighborhood.\u00a0 It was a soaking rain that came in bursts and one that will make for gorgeous spring time flowers out in the desert.\u00a0 Unfortunately some of the streets in town–most notably Tucson Boulevard– were built along the routes of what were once and on occasion still are washes.\u00a0 Last weekend was one of those times when unwary drivers needed to heed flash flood warnings on Tucson Boulevard.<\/p>\n
But then, Monday morning dawned clear and bright.\u00a0 The sun came out. I\u2019m told that by the end of the week the weather will be in the eighties.\u00a0 And what do people in Tucson do in that kind of weather in February?\u00a0 They bring out the bedding plants, of course\u2014brand new petunias, geraniums, and snap dragons.<\/p>\n
Our plants came home from the nursery yesterday afternoon in several colorful flats where they stayed overnight before going into the patio pots today.\u00a0 Within ten minutes of those bright red geraniums showing up, two butterflies did, too.\u00a0 Obviously they\u2019ve been prowling the neighborhood scanning for flowers.\u00a0 And, within half an hour of the first butterflies, our first hummingbird of the season showed up as well.<\/p>\n
I know there are Pacific Northwest specific hummers who don\u2019t migrate.\u00a0 In fact, we have a pair of them living in our Bellevue neighborhood who visit our feeder every day.\u00a0 When the big freeze came in early January, we had to bring the feeder into the house every night to keep it from turning into a gigantic ice cube.\u00a0 While we\u2019re down here being snowbirds, one of our house sitter\u2019s regular duties includes making sure the feeder doesn\u2019t run dry.<\/p>\n
Right now it\u2019s sunny outside.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to turn my computer screen to full bright and go outside to work.\u00a0 By the way, I\u2019ll also be barefoot.<\/p>\n
Neener, neener!<\/p>\n
Sorry, folks.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve got it, flaunt it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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