Still Raining

The weather service is saying this is a once in ten year rain event for California. Thank God.

Yesterday my back yard was under water.

Today the rain let up a bit. The lake in my backyard soaked into the ground. The river in the street subsided to a creek. The dogs went out for a much needed romp. And I'm going to venture out to get chicken feed and supplies to finish up my Christmas sewing.

I'll be so glad to see the sun on Thursday.

Hope you are staying warm and dry.

Rain, rain go away

It is raining. The torrential rain, river in the streets rain that hits southern California at Christmas time most years. I hate it. After one day I am grumpy and after two days I am grumpier. The weather report is prediciting rain through Wednesday; by then I will be grumpiestest!
 
If you are not from so. Cal you probably think I am a whinny wimp and you are right.  I am so conditioned to hot and dry that all this wet stuff is overwhelming and besides it makes the horse corrals stink.
 
Please...rain, rain go away!
 
So what is your weather like and how does it make you feel?

Barkcloth

I got up early this morning, 5 a.m., to clean the horses' corral so I wouldn't have to do it once the sun came up.  (Yesterday is was 110oF in lovely So. Cal. and today the forecast is 108oF.)  Oddly it was nice being out at that time of day.  Just enough light to see what I was doing, a warm breeze and three of my favorite companions--Max, Breezy and Tank.

I then got on the computer and bought these fabrics from Etsy for handbags. 

 

They are reproductions of barkcloth designs popular in the 1950's.



Can't wait for them to arrive so I can sew them up.

This one is my favorite, cuz I wanna be a cowgirl!

Do you have a favorite? Which one is it and why?