Rain, rain, rain

A sopping wet "hello" from rain-soaked SClarita.
The storms promised for this week have come to fruition, and we've had rain off and on since Sunday afternoon, sometimes very hard.

On Monday afternoon, when Stace came home from work it hadn't rained for a little while so we decided to take advantage of it. We put Cora's new rainboots/wellies on her feet and we walked around the neighborhood, looking for good puddles for her to jump in. She loved it, of course.

We were quite proud of her - we walked down to the other end of the neighborhood on the paseos, and then walked past the houses on our way back home, and Cora walked the entire way! She did ask to be carried the last block, but we put her off, and she made it home on her own (water-logged) feet.

She then needed a warm water warm-up, while Stace and I warmed up with cups of tea.

You can see in the next two photos how our yard is holding up from the four-five inches we've received the last few days. We have lakes in the back lawn and on the back patio, and the play room roof is leaking again.

We've found in our year-plus in this house that if Stace keeps the gutter clear on the addition, the gutters work well. But when we get this much rain, it just pools up, as there's hardly any grade to the roof, and the gutters can't keep up. We have the rubber play tiles, towels and pots and pans handling the drips.