Hey all, what's going on?  I think I may have just missed a rainbow (although the sun retreated behind the clouds again), but couldn't get outside to check without putting mud boots on, so I decided to pass.  For probably the last 45 minutes we've had an impressive downpour that is just now letting up.  Now don't get me wrong, I love rain; however...my little house sits at the bottom of a sloped driveway, and when it rains this hard it takes no time at all before the water runs down from the street and overwhelms the drainage system that sits just outside my carport.  The result?  A couple of inches of standing water in the carport and for several feet beyond, and it takes awhile to drain after the rain stops, and it sometimes stays muddy for a couple of days.  Amazingly enough, in all the years I've lived here, the water has never come into the house, not even when we got walloped by back to back hurricane remnants in 2004.  I have that to be thankful for, but it does get inconvenient at times, especially if I really need to go somewhere when the carport is flooded.  I've developed a system of stretching out to open the cardoor and more or less leaping into the passenger seat and crawling over to the driver's seat, LOL.
 

That's about it from here.  And yes, I'm still catching up on comments.  Almost done, actually.  Hopefully later this evening.  I hate when I get behind on that, because I don't want my friends to think I'm ignoring them (I'm not...really).

Smooches to all!

ETA: And...we have rainbow!  It blossomed from barely there to bright -- not knock-your-eyes out bright, but a lovely full arc, with the faintest of doubles.  Wheeeee!!!!