rain on Sweden

[gurdonark]

Today I drove to work by flooded fields in a driving rain. We don't do things by halves in north Texas. The radio said that three inches of rain fell, but Lake Lavon only rose half a foot. It is still over eleven feet low. I'm reading a Swedish police procedural. Tomorrow I have a routine follow-up with my doctor.

I'm filled with delight at the idea of bald eagles, pear trees in bloom, a pinball machine, fully-lit, and
the notion of a stop action animation crafted lovingly by hand.

Comments

[vuzh.livejournal.com]

Well I guess I'm glad you're getting rain anyway. It's too bad when it comes so hard & heavy though, since so much of it just washes off downstream. Wait a sec, I just remembered: Texas IS downstream.


I've seen a record number (for me) of bald eagles this year. They're everywhere.

There's a pinball arcade in nearby Lyons that is full of twenty or thirty different machines. They have tournaments: http://www.lyonspinball.com/
Awesome. We wanted to move to Lyons when we moved away from the mountains, but the houses there are too expensive.

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

The rain was abundant and great, though flash floods did appear to a limited extent. I was always struck when we lived in southern California at how much of chapparal ecology was geared to drought, fire and mudslide. That pinball emporium looks grand. We have a nickle a play vintage video game place a few towns over, but I know of no similar pinball palace.

I have not seen a bald eagle since we visited Canada a few years back, but they are frequently seen at nearby wildlife places. Great birds!