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Ricki Yasha Tarr Feb 2, 2024

What is one of your best rainy day memories?

My Cousin Sarah and I got to stay at our Great Grandma's house together, and it was raining, and she told us we didn't have to be cooped up, we could go play in the rain. This was very exciting, because it's not something our parents would have gone for. So we twirled around and leapt in puddles and licked raindrops off rose petals. When we were done our Gran put us in a hot bath, and made us hot tea and treats. She brought out a big bag of costume jewelry and let us go through it, we tried everything on, and thought we were very fancy, and she let us keep our favorite ones.

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Jared Feb 2, 2024

@RickiTarr back in the mid 90s when my family had outside garbage without wheels, there was a very memorable rainy day. Now, it is important to note while it snows a ton, it doesn't rain much. So no one realized that when empty, those garbage cans float. So, when it started raining enough to overflow the curb water drainage, all the garbage cans left out for garbage day started floating away. As we lived at the bottom of several hills, there were a lot of wandering cans that day

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Ricki Yasha Tarr Feb 2, 2024

@jared LOL THAT'S CRAZY

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Jared Feb 2, 2024

@RickiTarr I need to ask my dad for more details as he was likely one of the few able bodied adults that didn't have to work that day. While he would laugh about it now, i remember him scrabbling to rescue them.

Weather is fun in my home town. There is a canyon wind in the fall some years. Wind was as strong as a hurricane. Destructive, but not as much. Always knocked out power. Being wandering children with access to an open playground and small enough to struggle waking in it

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Jared

@RickiTarr from my Dad - “I sure do. They were floating down a place the gutter turned into a little cement trough between 45th and Madison. We all thought it was funny. They looked like they were marching down single file.”