{"id":64,"date":"2005-09-09T23:02:45","date_gmt":"2005-09-09T14:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-09-09\/64"},"modified":"2005-09-09T23:08:17","modified_gmt":"2005-09-09T14:08:17","slug":"late-afternoon-storm-and-mowing-lawns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-09-09\/64","title":{"rendered":"Late-Afternoon Storm, and the Mowing of Lawns"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a> The black square to the lower-right of center
\n marks the area of Kyoto were we live. <\/i><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n

\n\nWe had the most pleasant late-summer storm this afternoon. What was left of\nTyphoon #14 had blown through the other day, and as always after a typhoon,<\/span>\ntoday was a spectacularly<\/span> sunny and clear (and hot) day.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nThus, it was with great surprise that we were greeted by a late<\/span>-afternoon\n(~4:30pm) short but fierce thunderstorm. It suddenly<\/span> grew very dark, and\nthe dark heavy clouds rolled in quite low, as if you could reach up and\ntouch them. Then it got a bit<\/span> lighter, as if it has passed us, but then the\nsky opened up with a torrent<\/span> of water, and a cold<\/span> wind (the first of\nanything I'd call “cold” in Kyoto since last winter) whipped up\na fury.<\/span> The arrival<\/span> of the rain and wind was accompanied by a chorus<\/span> of\nthunder and lightning (albeit a meager<\/span> amount for one used to an\nAmerican-Midwest storm).\n\n<\/p>

\n\nIt was quite pleasant to stand on the veranda with Anthony, feeling the\nwhipping wind and the rain it brought. The veranda<\/span> is protected enough that\nwe mostly didn't get wet, except for the occasional gust that hit just\nright to bring a strong<\/span> spray of water in upon us. After such a hot<\/span> summer,\nthe cold wind was as pleasant as one could imagine. It was very<\/span> nice.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nThe storm was good timing for the family that lives below us. The lady of<\/span>\nthe house had just finished cutting the grass in their little garden area\n(cutting, it seems, with what looked like a small<\/span> set of hedge trimmers),\nand was putting the last of the clippings into a bag<\/span> when the wind first\nwhipped up. She's got quite a green<\/span> thumb and has recently planted some\ntrees and other plants, so I'm sure they can all use some rain.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nAn actual lawn with grass is sufficiently rare in any part of Japan I've\never seen that it's probably a challenge<\/span> to find a way<\/span> to trim it. I'm sure that<\/span> the market for lawn mowers is about as strong in Kyoto as for kimono\nin Cleveland. I noticed<\/span> that one of the other first-floor residents (such\nresidents have a small<\/span> grassy garden area) had a little<\/span> tiny electric lawn\nmower on their front porch. It was smaller<\/span> and more cute than any toddler's\ntoy mower I've ever seen; the mower deck would perhaps just about fit on a\nsheet<\/span> of 8x10 paper.\n\n<\/p>
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We had the most pleasant late-summer storm this afternoon. What was left of Typhoon #14 had blown through the other day, and as always after a typhoon, today was a spectacularly sunny and clear (and hot) day. <\/p>

Thus, it was with great surprise that we were greeted by a late-afternoon (~4:30pm) short but fierce thunderstorm. It suddenly grew very dark, and the dark heavy clouds rolled in quite low, as if you could reach up and touch them. Then it got a bit lighter, as if it has passed us, but then the sky opened up with a [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}