We got rain last night.
I know, everyone everywhere experiences this. However, we Mesquiters haven’t experienced measurable precipitation in 8 months.
In fact, our 9 month-old puppy, BonBon, had never seen rain until last night and was quite puzzled when she went outside to take a pee. She just stood there with the strangest WTF look on her face.
Little BonBon also wasn’t prepared for her next experience…thunder!! Oooooooh, she didn’t like that one bit. In fact, as we lay in bed, I could feel her tremble uncontrollably and tuck herself closer into my back.
It sucks when you’re a Boston Terrier and have those big ears that can hear every little thing, real and imagined. Between the rolling thunder and the flapping of the doggie door, it must have sounded to BonBon like the invasion of the body snatchers.
More rain is forecast for this coming week. We can use anything we can get: our annual rainfall total in Mesquite, Nevada averages about 6 inches and, with one-third of Winter elapsed, we might have 1/4 inch.
Not even cactus can survive such a drought.
We need a couple of “drenchers” between now and March so that all of the plants can rehydrate and put out those wonderful Spring flowers. It is so pretty here when that happens each year.
Charlie is keeping dry right now: it’s Tax Season. She’s hunkered down in her office helping clients get their share of the Federal PPP “stimulus” loans that Congress recently approved. And, in her spare time, is getting ready for tax prep.
And, she’s helping son Jonathan establish a few new bookkeeping clients.
She’s a busy lady helping small businesspeople stay afloat in this crummy economy: she deserves an award of some type.
Charlie and I are scrounging around on State and local websites trying to register for a Covid-19 vaccination. We’re in the priority age group; however, vaccine seems to be in short supply here in Nevada and elsewhere.
Ex-President Trump’s vaunted “Operation Warp Speed” evidently promised a whole lot more than it could deliver. Now we’re hearing that most Americans won’t sniff the vaccine until Summer.
I hope we’re alive by then.
The National death count is almost 3,000 per day, and that’s the good news. The bad news is that there are several variant strains of Covid-19 now making the rounds that are more contagious and more lethal than the original. It is unknown right now whether the current vaccines are effective against the “new and improved” Covid-19 model.
Just the news that we’ve been waiting for!
I’m guessing that one million Americans are going to die from this plague before it’s over.
Of course, by then, we citizens of Mesquite, Nevada could already be dead: from lack of rain.
What’s worse: to die of thirst or die from not being able to breathe?
I really don’t want to find out.