The Big Wet

The rain arrived while I slept, and the waterfall cascading from the roof into the flower bed by the front door reminded me that I had failed to clean out the rain gutters. So far nothing is dripping from my ceiling, but it won't be long, I'm sure. It's going to rain all night, and off and on tomorrow, and probably the next two days as well. Each day will be colder than the last, but the snow level will remain well above our elevation. I'm glad we're getting a head start on next year's water supply, but distressed that furnace season has begun so soon.

My favorite part of the day so far was about ten o'clock this morning, when the clouds settled earthward and filled the street with fog. I could barely see the trees a hundred feet away. Wind later sent them back to the sky where they now hang their delightful gloom. The lawn has not yet begun to turn green, of course, but the moss on the mulberry tree and on the walk under it has rapidly turned lush where a few days ago it was sere.

I'm going to heat some soup for lunch, and make some garlic toast of a stale roll I failed to eat last week. Tomorrow I have an appointment with the chiropractor, so will have to go out into whatever weather the afternoon offers. Today I intend to enjoy being indoors, despite having the thermostat set at 64 degrees. I'm going to read for a while after lunch, wrapped in a big, fuzzy blanket which I will share with a cat. All I really lack is a pair of mittens with one finger hole for turning pages.

This Election Cycle's Funniest Line Yet

Reportedly, Mitt Romney actually said this: "Syria is Iran's route to the sea."

Hey, W. Mitty, here's a quick geography lesson from a fifteen-year-old girl on the Internets. I don't know what school she goes to, but apparently they teach a bit of geography there. Maybe the elite private school Mitt attended for six years didn't.

Mitt is only a couple of years younger than me, and I certainly learned geography in California's public schools during that era. Maybe Cranbrook did teach geography, but Mitt has just forgotten the lessons over time. But I'd bet that W. Bush knows that Iran is a coastal country and has no border with Syria.