It’s raining!
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A few minutes ago, I heard some pitter patter-type sounds on my roof. At first, I thought the Gremlins were back, but then I remembered that it was all cloudy outside and put two and two together.
Sure enough, I looked outside and it was raining!
Arizona friends will recall that I'm a big fan of rain — and not just because it's so infrequent in the desert, although that does heighten the appeal.
Well, here in the Coachella Valley, I've found that rainy days are even farther and fewer between than in the Valley of the Sun. While Arizona gets some nice monsoon storms at the end of each summer, the most the monsoon does to us make it cloudy over the top of Mount San Jacinto. Sadly, the storms never seemed to make it over the mountain into the valley this past summer, at least.
The only other time I've ever seen it rain here was one afternoon while I was at work, and it was barely drizzling then. (There was one time that I found some rain spots on my car and Stacy swears that it had legitimately rained up at her place, but I must've slept through that one.)
So as you can imagine, I was hella excited to see the rain today. In fact, I've already gone out and gotten somewhat soaked. It's not raining very hard, but I took a walk around the block to make sure I'd get my fill of precipitation.