Rain rain, beautiful rain

It's raining.

Water is actually falling from the skies here in 

Southeastern New Mexico.

In the desert we celebrate when it rains,

we stand and watch it while making ooh-ooh sounds

and pointing.

Real rain, gentle failing rain is such an abnormality for us.

Our Boston terrier, BB, who was raised from a tiny puppy here,

has experienced being rained on perhaps 6 times in his whole life.

Each minor wet incident separated by years of time.

In the past two days we have received

real rain, perfect rain, twice in two days.

There may be more according to forecasts.

Our dog does not know how to handle this rain strangeness.

He's scared of it, shaking, the sound of falling rain is frightening to him..

To be truthful, rain is strangeness to us as well.

Outside the normal protocol for the desert. 

This beautiful rain, according to forecasts, is to continue for

several days.

Due to this recent, perhaps ongoing for several days unusual and perfect rain,

we have now true hope for our gardens this summer.

Retired Extremely Dangerous

Two seasons away from retirement now.

I am starting to accept that retirement may truly happen?

Unwilling to fall into the trap of counting days,

I mark time towards retirement seasonally.

Two seasons down, two left to do until retirement happens.

I have started a notebook filling it only with 

ideas, jobs and projects to do once retired.

Each day at work i attempt to add one or two

projects or concepts, listing projects for post retirement that i can

do at home, the things i have always wanted to do,

wished i could do, should have done, would have liked to do....

if i only had the time.

I recently failed to balance my planning, desire and

OCDness in reference to the future purchase for the Sports Car

retirement restoration project.

The past few days i became way way too focused

on possible vehicles to buy when currently

it is exceptionally early in retirement financial and support

zones to do anything in the actual purchasing of a project vehicle.

Several days of overboard focus has made me 

sit back and reevaluate appropriate timing, desires,

and obtaining the correct end result.

Putting the brakes on my brain can be the most difficult of

tasks.

I mistakenly began to jump into the overwhelming 

desire of buying and the doing.

Way to early in every sense of practicality. 

Pushed by the Rain Man that lies inside of me.

I am somewhat back under mental control now,

when it comes to the restoration project

I am slowly but surely completing my

1:32 scale W.W.1 French monoplane model.

Small segments completed each weekend.

The cockpit, wings, fuselage, tail structure, landing gear

and engine are completed.

There remains much to complete, especially the

wire rigging for the wings and tail.

Followed by detailing.

My new process of building slowly

with caution and consideration works admirably. 

Now on season 5 of the Jack Bauer/24 watching binge.

"There is no great genius,

without a mixture of madness."

Aristotle