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Four Point Sixty-Nine And Counting

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Milk chocolate water filling the river at 5:30 a.m.

The rain gauge shows 4.69 inches of rain for the month as I type.  There is one more day in September. Will we make it to five inches of rain for the month? The last time Corrales received more than 4.50 inches of rain in a month was July and September 2013. According to the NOAA records, the Corrales gauge recorded its all-time 24-hour precipitation record of 1.78 inches on July 26, 2013.

The owl and I were the only ones out in the rain this morning.

No trace of the moon through the thick clouds.

The Rio Grande was flowing fast and high at 7:00 a.m.

Doppel happy to be inside, out of the rain.

Rain let up for a few minutes around 4:00 p.m.

Sunset

Hunderdth Of An Inch

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Starting off September with 100th of an inch of rain that left rings around the moon.

Pre-dawn color

Another old, broken cottonwood

Doppel doing his “Gentleman’s Kitty Quarterly” poses. He’s one cool cat!

Late afternoon

Do you see faces in the clouds?

Jake

Sunset

Daddy Owl at dusk

Tried to capture the bats buzzing me, but they flew too fast to show up in the dusk photo.

Happy Birthday, Jake

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Jake turned 9 today. For some reason, I thought he would be turning 7, but no. He is 9, and old man like me. He got to sleep in for his birthday. We had leftover pizza for breakfast. Jake got the pizza bones (the crust) after his regular breakfast. We went out for our morning walk at noon.

We walked down to the beach, and Scoopy took Jake for a scoop on the wet sand.

Then Jake claimed his own island in the middle of the Rio Grande.

He made a couple of laps around the beach in celebration of his island.

Jake was a little dirty, a little tired, but satisfied with his birthday celebration on the beach. The rest of our walk was uneventful.

On our evening walk, Jake romped with a miniature Austrian Shepherd and made a new Japanese friend.

Dusk

Daddy Owl hooted “Happy Birthday, Jake” from the top of a tree.

Dusk sky