Meg still laughs. In the Midwest, we get weather advisories for severe thunderstorms, high winds, flooding, or ice/snow. Here in Silicon Valley, rain is sufficiently rare that weather alerts are given just for that. "Alert! It will rain tomorrow!" That sort of thing... (I think a half-inch is expected...somewhere. In California, where you are determines what you will get. Last summer, I watched the climate change by 35 degrees by location within 100 miles.) Attached to the alert, according to Meg, was another warning that streets/roads could be slippery due to lack of precipitation to wash oil and rubber off the surfaces. 'Tis true, but we usually don't think of it back home because usually the weather takes care of that for us.
Megan and Denis and I drove to Stanford University today just to nose around. Now I can say I've been there... We wanted to get out of the car but couldn't find a place to park. At one place, a sign said visitor parking could be obtained in a lot to the left...but when we got in there, it seemed that the only way out was to drive on sidewalks. Obviously not the right thing to do!
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From there, we drove to Atherton, CA, which (according to Denis) is touted as the most expensive place to live in the country. I was unimpressed...
We came home to go feed the ducks across the street. They were greedy, as usual.
Tomorrow, we/I need to stay home to do laundry and tidy up the place. We have lots of little projects that can be done...crocheting, cross-stitch, etc... If I don't get some laundry done, I'll be running around in my robe all day. Not a pretty sight!
The news from home is that things are melting and that my car battery is dead. I have become so spoiled by the climate here that I HOPE things are better when I return home in a little over a week. Come on, spring!!
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