04:25 PM
Weather It don't rain in California...

It don't rain in California... And what's that other song? ..."and I wish it would rain", some mournful thing, I think, crying in your beer song. I'm not sad, I just want it to rain! All week, the weather forecast has been promising rain and we've had nary a drop! And now we have this big ole tropical storm right off the coast, threatening to grow up and be a hurricane and we STILL have no rain! My poor daisies are all wilted.

But the storm has at least brought us lovely cool, *fall* weather, all these wonderful southern winds which blow straight in my living room window. A little too humid but not too bad and since it's cooler, it's not bothersome. Now if that durned storm would just come a bit closer and give us some rain, not a lot, not like last summer, just a nice soft drenching.

I love rain and gray skies, I love thunder and lightning (as long as everything's unplugged or on a UPS). When I was a kid spending summers in Wisconsin at my grandparent's lake house, we used to get these marvelous northern thunder storms, they'd sweep in across the lake, cold air blowing and then torrents of rain and lightning bolts over the lake while the thunder boomed! The gods going bowling in the heavens, it was brilliantly terrifying and beautiful.