BrianK

OH WOW! 112*! Not here thank God! I'm guessing it's in the 70s, feels like it. It's trying to clear out from last nights rain. But we could get showers.

Cloudy all day, in the 70s. More rain on the way for tonight.

Yesterday the weather changed to T'storms and rain for most of the day. Right now it's nice but the forecast is for more rain in a bit. Over 2.5" of rain in the last few days. We entered the year in a drought condition, we might be out of that at this point. If not we're really close to being out of it.

It never did rain yesterday but It looked like it was going to open up all day. Today in the mid 60s and white skies. Variable heavy breezes.

Low 70s, Variably cloudy with dark clouds. Rain could happen at any time. Breezy. Other than the possible downpour it's a pretty nice day.

Low 50s and rain today. T'storms in a few hours.

Another nice day. A little warmer than yesterday but very tolerable. Slightly more fair weather clouds. Variable gentle breezes.

Beautiful day today, low 70s and low humidity. Fair weather clouds but mostly blue skies, and a gentle variable breezes.

That's what we get for living under where the humid Gulf air and Arctic air fight it out for supremacy twice a year. Last night another front must have come through. At 0600 the skies opened up and unleashed a torrent. Cooler today and while I have not been outside yet I bet the humidity is even lower than yesterday.

Oh, sorry, central Maineiac.

Pull up a chair and set a spell. You're welcome here.

The last few days have been in the high 80s and very humid. Similar temps today but quite a bit drier. Thunderstorms right now and heavy rain.

Okayyyy! You haven't really lived until you've heard a pack of coon cats headed in all directions and all hissing.

Just curious. Write as much or as little as you want. I tend to diahreah of the keyboard. I get to go first. When I was in the military I thought it might be worth learning to keep my body behind cover as much as possible. But frankly, other than having the thought I didn't act on it because, well, it was the military and I had the thought that signing my M-16 out of the arms room for dry firing might be frowned on. But one terrible day (civilian life) we had an ice storm during the night. It was "black ice" which is invisible and I went out to start my car, slipped and turned my right wrist into shards. I was put into an erector set of pins, screws , and rods and I got to thinking after talking to the surgeon... I was told that my wrist would never be the same, yada, yada. But then came the fighter in me. "No", said I silently, "I am going to get the full use of it back, but if I miss that goal I will never not be a rifleman and shooter. I just need to learn to shoot lefty. Heck, I'm already left eye dominant!". So while in the erector set I started to teach myself to shoot lefty. Eventually the pins, rods, and screws were removed and I was able to see what I had learned by actually shooting. Darned if I wasn't a better lefty shooter than I was as a righty. I just wasn't comfortable being a lefty shooter, meaning it didn't come naturally to me. I was so accustomed to thinking "righty". But I can do it, and with handguns the brain automatically has me using my dominant eye. I do everything I can for gear to force my right hand to use my right eye. I'm older and with age sometimes comes cataracts. At one steel challenge match my brain started to use my left eye to sight with. I was silently muttering "What the eff!?? What's going on?". So I closed my left eye to force the use of the right eye. My preference is shooting with both eyes open and trained myself to do that. Advancing forward a few months from the match. I had one cataract fixed for distance (right eye), I'd been profoundly near sighted since the 3rd grade and was now in my 70s. No need for glasses for distance anymore, and I had 20/20 vision in that one eye. I was still profoundly myopic in the left. I thought that would drive me nuts. It didn't. My brain did what it did during that steel challenge match and chose the eye with the best vision for the job. I had great close in vision, like having a built in magnifying glass, and great distance vision. I finally understood why I had been using my left eye during the match. My brain knew what "was best" and just used what was the best eye for the job during that match, the eye with the better vision. I sorta liked the new "no need for any eyeglasses at all" new me, and considered keeping my left eye myopic, but instead had the left corrected for distance for binocular vision and the ability to shoot lefty or righty without requiring a Rx lense for the left eye. Oh, the right wrist? I fired my therapist and searched for one that wasn't going to treat me like someone about to die tomorrow having the attitude, "so who needs a right wrist?". I have full use of it today. I didn't baby it, I pushed it and dictated to the wrist what it was going to do. At times, rarely, I feel tauma arthritus but it's no big deal. Mostly it's just a wrist that I use and give no thought to.

Rain yesterday, rain on and off for the next few days. Maine is a well watered land. Lotsa lakes, streams and rivers and that water comes from somewhere. Water... The other day a friend came over for lunch and asked for a glass of water. She drilled a well decades ago and hit salt water that was trapped at a minimum 10s of thousands of years ago. She's 80 miles away from the sea. She tasted our water and told us "Your water tastes good.". Yup, we hit a great aquifer with a delivery rate too high for the well driller to accurately guess at. He just wrote 15gal/minute on the final well form. If I wanted to put in a suitable pump I could supply the entire mountain. So the rain? Yes, we might not want rainy days but they resupply our aquifers so suck it up. Right now we're in our rainy season. That'll change in a month or 2. Today light clouds and sunshine, 70*F in the sun.