It's Wet!

I was sitting at the desk last night checking out something on the internet when I heard a series of loud booms. When I wondered what it was, Forry immediately said it was thunder. I was skeptical, but then saw a flash of light out the front window and a few seconds later another boom. Darn, I hate it when he's right...

A few minutes later, we heard a few drops of rain hitting the roof. From there it went to a deluge. It rained pretty much all night. Sometimes, the rain came down so hard that I wondered if the roof would stand up to it. This is what it looked like through the sunshade curtain on the front windshield this morning --

It's been raining off and on all day. There was a brief period when there was a bit of blue sky on the horizon, but it quickly filled in with more grey clouds. I heard on the news that the region had had an inch of rain in the last 24 hours. We are on an areal flood watch (areal = relates to prolonged rainfall of over six hours which saturates the ground and causes slow rising of rivers and streams, in contrast to flash flooding which occurs quickly) through sometime on Saturday. They are expecting at least two more inches of rain before it's over.

A former colleague of mine has been in the area the past couple of weeks helping her brother who has been quite ill. She's heading back to Spokane tomorrow, so we arranged to meet her for lunch. We were all a little leery about how the driving might be in this part of the world where people are not used to wet roads, but we did fine. We met her at Ranch de Tia Rose's, which is our favorite Mexican gourmet restaurant in the area. The food is always wonderful here. This is a picture Cathi took of her gluten-free grilled salmon enchiladas with avocado sauce. Forry had some crab enchiladas while I ate my "usual" chile relleno filled with pork and pine nuts. So good!

Wouldn't you like to have a table made of these gorgeous tiles?