Sentences with phrase «of little rain»

With all the problems that the South has had in the past years of little rain, MANY people around here had to have new wells dug and they eagerly decided that city water was the way to go.

Four years of little rain has reduced the cover to 18 percent.

The mesh allows the child to stay cooler in the seat from the increased amount of air that can get to them, and the retractable weather cover is there to block off the mesh in case of a little rain, or too much wind.

After a few years of little rain that depleted cattle herds in Queensland, many graziers decided to build up their stocks instead of selling.

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Little do these skeptics, who rain on the home business owner's parade, know is that the number of people working from home, and making very good annual incomes, has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years.

Groupon once ran an ad with an image of a little piglet in red rain boots standing in the mud.

Flournoy said President Trump's tough talk about North Korea — which has included deriding Kim Jong Un as «Little Rocket Man» and threatening to rain «fire and fury» down on his country — made it «much more likely now that one side or the other will misread what was intended as a show of commitment or a show of force.»

The rain kept up for most of the day, making the long, long walk around Chicago's Grant Park a little more treacherous.

Surprisingly, Maine makes little of these scenes: Noe (the author uses the spellings employed in a pre-King James translation) is portrayed in the opening sentence as glancing «toward the heavens, something he does a lot these days,» but aside from the implication that he may be looking for further divine clarification and not just the promised rains, we don't see him musing much.

In praise of wide open windows and green trees, of rain soaked ground and early bedtimes for everyone, of full bookshelves and white jammies with the little feet for the baby, of smudged glasses sliding down a boy's nose and ringlets and a pixie who can't stop plotting and a baby who takes us all in.

I am not ashamed because there are all these little mustards seeds scattered across our broken, shameful world, some of them just now swelling and splitting underneath the dark soil; others breaking through the surface with a garish flash of green; others meandering toward the sun, desperate for light or rain or some sort of trellis; others growing slow and steady into tall shade tress with limbs like arms wide open to the world, welcoming the birds of the air to nest in their branches.

The words of bigots and naysayers mean very little to a man of faith like him - its like rain on a windshield - we got wipers for that @ssholes.

While too much of rain could wash away topsoil, too little would be insufficient to moisture the soil.

But, nothing like five buckets of patience, a couple good days of rain, plenty of steamy sunshine and a little everyday care to make it grow.

I think of my mom whenever I eat or cook fish, for when I was a little girl she would cook it once a week, rain or shine, and would tell me every single time how good it was for the brain.

We walked along the beach, where he chased the waves a little too closely and ended up with soaking wet jeans; visited the Page Museum, where we watched volunteers meticulously dust off newly discovered fossils; stopped for dinner at one of my favorite restaurants, where I nearly single - handedly polished off an entire Hula Pie ice cream dessert by myself; meandered out along a pier, where a practically blind seagull almost flew straight into my guy's head; and drove through the rain to the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, where we chuckled at the seals in the synchronized swimming routine.

But last winter's deluge of rain nearly drowned my poor little Meyer lemon tree.

Whisper — I kind of want it to rain, just a little bit.

Hi Diane, Wish we had part of your rain, we did cool off a little this afternoon and that was refreshing.

In Sonora and southern Arizona, chiltepíns grow in microhabitats in the transition zone between mountain and desert, which receives as little as ten inches of rain per year.

My sister and I went camping for the first time since we were little a few weekends ago and although it rained like crazy (see my instagram pics) we had a lot of fun.

Chile's central valley, the heartland of Awe Sum Organics Blueberry production, experiences very little rain during the growing and harvest season, resulting in decreased susceptibility to fungus and other diseases.

I was a little concerned with all of the vigor and growth we observed from the massive rains this past winter, but they have proved to be a blessing in disguise (I know it's not great for mildew), shielding the fruit from these heat spells in most of the vineyards I have observed.

«The weather is changing a little bit down here... getting a bunch of rain but we're still keeping our kids healthy, especially with our salad bars!»

In Sonora and southern Arizona, chiltepíns grow in microhabitats in the transition zone between mountain and desert, which receive as little as ten inches of rain per year.

Here on the east side of the peninsula where there is little rain along with extreme heat, the view to the west is of many hued mountains and desert cactus and to the east is the warm, clear waters of the Sea of Cortez, with cactus «marching» down to shores.

I think I am almost done with the jet lag from my Moroccon adventure but now I have the darkness of the early morning with rain pouring down that makes JUMPING out of bed full of vibrant energy a little trickier.

This season has been exceptionally fabulous because we're finally heading out of a drought and the rains have brought nourishment to our little garden orchard.

All the hype was surrounding the challenge of the wet start, but rain had little to do with what happened at turn one

Two months later, following the end of recruiting season, he and his offensive assistants — including Brandon, whom he'd hired from Colorado, and Mullen, whom he'd made his quarterbacks coach — hunkered down for three weeks of closed - door brainstorming sessions in «a little staff room that dripped when it rained,» says Meyer.

It was April in Portland, Ore., raining, of course, and in a quiet little backwater of the city, along the Willamette River, tiny Oaks Amusement Park was still closed for the winter.

Further compounding the difficulty is Elliott has precious little seat - time on the Virginia short track (Martinsville doesn't have an Xfinity date) and rain washed away much of Friday practice.

1 Forever and Ever, Amen, Randy Travis 2 Rockin» with the Rhythm of the Rain, The Judds 3 No Time to Kill, Clint Black 4 The Dance, Garth Brooks 5 Little Bitty, Alan Jackson

It's raining down like a tropical fucking storm and if you ain't right, that storm of envy, temptation, greed, spotlight, sex, booze and drugs is got ta batter your poor little ass umbrella until your ass is soaked wet.»

He also seemed a little surprised by the rain hence his poor touch and passing a couple of times.

In April at Bristol International Raceway, a little hellhole in the hills of eastern Tennessee, rain was coming down in sheets, drowning his last chance to qualify for that weekend's race.

We have a library of Bubba moaning and groaning in the rain, yelling at mud balls, and just generally ejecting when skies make things a little uncomfortable.

Ahh but TMJW have you not listened to a single word Thomas has given for the Swansea defeat?It was raining quite hard.I know because I was there.I got a little bit wet as I walked back to my car after the game and recall thinking I'm so glad I'm not a professional footballer that earns millions of pounds a year as it would mean I would get a bit wet and cold every now and then when it rained.

Rain will come in as a line then dissipate a little but areas of showers will remain through the afternoon.

Trevor: With a little bit of rain and his ball flight, Rory McIlroy is my pick.

Because of FFP, even che and city rained it in a little compared to what we were used to seeing.

JO's failure to mention their support was not only deceiving to his viewers, but also seemed a little disrespectful of the efforts the Orfalea family has made towards making sure the students of their community are well nourished, as if the scratch cooking program just sprang up one day like a mushroom after the rain.

The garden is getting a good long soaking today with the rain that's falling, and we're getting a lovely little break from the work of it too.

But a little more than a week later, Hadiya and a group of friends were huddled under a park canopy, trying to escape some heavy rain, when a gunman opened fired on the group.

So I can see why you felt compelled to do a little «raining» — it is really important to understand the realities of trying to change this huge system.

So when the dark clouds appear and the sprinkle of rain has begun, there is nothing more tragic to my little one.

I critiqued that post here («Why I Just Rained on Someone's School Food Reform Parade «-RRB-, arguing that improving school food is in fact quite difficult, and that the subject of the post, Jane Hersey of Feingold Associates, was a little too blithe in dismissing those difficulties.

Even with the rain it was a great party, and our little guy had so much fun with all of his family and friends there to help him celebrate.

Even as the color of rain forests and wetlands enjoys a wave of unprecedented popularity, with everyone from NBC («Green is Universal») to Hertz («Make the world a little greener») wrapping themselves in shades of emerald, pine and avocado, cutting - edge activists and advertisers have begun to look elsewhere.

It is not that I can't take a little bit of rain, but sometimes it is raining in such an uncomfortable way, and the wind is blowing the raindrops all over the place.