In the center of this mess (you can't really see it unless you click on the picture -- for some reason that's the only time you get the clear resolution) is our house.  On the better picture, it's that itty-bitty circle thing you always see on an Internet map when you doubleclick.  Yes, that's it, right smack in the middle of a yellow blob which is vaguely shaded orange and getting oranger (is that a word?  Nah...) by the minute.

It rained all night last night, off and on today, then started again seriously as I was driving home.  There were a couple of iffy areas on the road as to flooding, but I was early enough in the downpour to make it.  I wouldn't try it tonight.  The dogs can only go out the front (all landscaping rock and no dirt/now mud), and so they are draggy and miserable.  I'm achy.

By hey, this is two days in a row I didn't have to water the rose bushes.  :-P

The Husband (westonochse) gets his traveling butt home tomorrow.  It's about doggone time.  I've had to delegate supervision of getting our little upstairs balcony tiled to my Dad (who's done a pretty fair job of it, I must say).  Unfortunately, this rain will stop the job in its tracks, as the grout cannot be put in under wet conditions.  So close, and yet so far.

Tomorrow night, after picking up The Husband at the airport, we're coming back to town, feeding the dawgs, and then trying a new restaurant.  It's been here for awhile, but we just haven't gotten around to it.  The place deems itself as "casual upscale."  Big words for little Sierra Vista.  However, they have some interesting stuff on their menu in the phone book (sorry, but they're not so "upscale" that they actually have a website), like Jalapeno bacon-wrapped filet, blue-corn crusted catfish with red chile sauce, and some other yummy-sounding stuff.  Definitely looking forward to it.  Sometime this weekend we want to get out and watch The 300 at the theater.

Yes, it's raining even harder now than it was when I went hunting for the weather map.  I think it's actually hailing.  I just know the power's going to go any minute.  Gotta love living in the desert...