Time to build that ark?

After having had several years of drought conditions in this area, I thought that I would never say this again.  But I just have to say . . . ENOUGH ALREADY!!!!!  Good Lord!  Yesterday I watched as my yard turned into a lake (and I'm on a hill!) about 4 inches deep and the rain just kept coming down.  The rain gauge overflowed (it hold 8 inches worth).  My Russian sage has drowned and the azalea is about to follow suit.  Really.  Enough already.  And the forecast is for rain every day for the foreseeable future.

I suppose it's good thing I didn't have Memorial Day plans.  That's not just the constant rain.  That's mostly because I had the periodontal surgery last Thursday, and I'm really glad I didn't plan anything for this weekend.   Besides the fact that I look like a mutant chipmunk with it's cheek pouches full, I'm sore and bruised as well.  I don't remember the last surgery being this painful afterward, although it was roughly 20 years ago, when I probably healed better.  Plus I only had the gum surgery that time, no bone grafting.   Weirdly the left side where I didn't have bone grafting is more bruised, but the right, bone-grafting side is more painful and swollen.

The surgery itself I have no memory of, except I remember occasionally he would say, "turn your head this way" and I'd turn it.  But I have zero memory of anything else.  Conscious sedation is a wonderful thing.  I remember the wheelchair ride to my car, and then waking up in bed later in the afternoon.  I seriously see why someone has to drive you.  I know we stopped to get the prescriptions filled for pain meds and antibiotics because I have a vague memory the clerk saying it would take over an hour to fill them.  So my driver must have brought me home and gone back after them - and paid for them, so I'll have to reimburse her.   

Anyway, I'm healing so it's all good.  I got my May traveling done with no hitches so the next trip is the Paris trip the third week in June.  I went online this morning and cleared 250 emails from my work email from the 2 days I was gone, so I won't be too over overwhelmed tomorrow when I go back to work.  And I also tackled some of my journal editorial duties for the same reason.

I don't have any new pictures lately since who wants pictures of rain?  So the pictures in this post are older pics.  Addy enjoying laying outside while I'm out there.  All the blooming plants on my sink and counter, along with roses from the garden.  I'm also putting in this picture of the very tiny white moss flowers that bloomed under the little pine tree.  I don't know that they'll be visible in the post, but they're there.

I think I have more than 2 hummers this year. I've only seen 2 at a time at the feeder, but the food level is decreasing faster this year than it did last year.  The horde of sparrows is once again eating me out of house and birdseed.  And that Cooper's Hawk still hunts occasionally here, scattering the little birds when he comes.  I have both mourning doves and white-winged doves.  Some of the mourning doves stay year round, but the white-wings leave in the winter.

Anyway, that's about it for today.  Just thought I'd get a post in, even if it's just to complain about the rain and my surgery.  I am glad I live mostly on a hill though.  I could wish my yard drained better, but maybe that's something I can correct whenever I have to replace the old sprinkler system - which I had on for about a week in early March but have turned off since so far this year I have NO need for it.  

Later.