glad for the rain

When I left work on Tues­day I was car­ry­ing an umbrella and feel­ing a lit­tle duped. The weather ser­vice folks had pre­dicted a big storm to begin that day, but I ven­tured out into an almost cloud­less early evening.

A friend of a friend is a phys­i­cal oceanog­ra­pher down at Scripps Insti­tu­tion, and the word from him was that this weather sys­tem had pulled into the atmos­phere more mois­ture than any storm over the last five years. So accord­ing to him as well as the weather ser­vice, this was going to be a big one.

Welcome mat in the rain

Wel­come mat in the rain

The rain finally began in earnest yes­ter­day after­noon, com­ing in squalls and down­pours rather than a con­tin­u­ous driz­zle. A lit­tle before five this morn­ing we got the biggest del­uge so far that caused a loud roar that woke up every­one in the house. And it’s still rain­ing now. It’s one of my favorite forms of enter­tain­ment, and in fact I have one of the doors open right now so I can hear it better.

So, today, a day when peo­ple acknowl­edge the good things in their lives, I’m count­ing the first seri­ous rain in many months as one of my many fine and beau­ti­ful things.

Here’s wish­ing all of you a great holiday!

Now I’d bet­ter get off the com­puter and get the dough ris­ing for the after­noon bread…

November 27 2008 09:26 am | Categories: rambles |

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