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Reset Forty-Eight, Day Seventy-Three
May. 7th, 2023 04:16 amSaturday turned out to be wet, though I mostly slept through two periods of intense rain. The first began not long after I got to bed, when light was first coming into the sky, and when it had been sprinkling or drizzling for a couple of hours. It quickly intensified until I could hear it quite distinctly, and I thought well, I hope this doesn't keep me awake, and I was out. I woke up again about an hour later, and it had grown quiet, so it was probably the end of the downpour that woke me up. I got up to check for leaks anywhere, and though the driveway was still well flooded, nothing had come into the apartment, so I went back to bed and slept some more. I woke a couple more times over the course of the morning, sometimes to the sound of rain and sometimes to silence, but when I got up about noon there was pale sunlight falling in the back yard.
Afternoon was intermittently sunny and cloudy, but no more rain fell. It stayed dry enough that I was able to get to the mailbox and find nothing, though FedEx brought the third package from my Wayfair order. This is a roasting pan. Why I bought a roasting pan is not clear to me. A couple of time since I've been in the mini-metropolis I've missed the roasting pan I lost in the fire, though I rarely used it. There is a very good chance that this pan will sit idle until the day I die. But I think I might have covered all this before, so forget it. that's what I did.
Around four o'clock I went back to bed to finish sleeping, but about an hour later I was awakened by aloud peal of thunder. It lasted such along time that I thought it might have been a jet taking off from the airport, but shortly after it faded away there came another, clearly thunder, accompanied by a fresh downpour of rain. I got up to lookout the window and was amazed at how low the gray sky looked, and at how furiously the rain fell. The light looked the way I imagine it would look from inside a translucent pearl. I got back under my covers and listened to the rain and thunder for a while and then, unsurprisingly, rather than being raptured I fell asleep again. The next time I woke it was dusk, and there was no rain. I haven't heard any since, though I can't sear there have been no sprinkles. I was preoccupied making and eating a sandwich, and looking at Idernet and listening to music, and nodding off a lot, like the old guy I actually am.
For the last three hours I've been fighting the urge to go to sleep again, because I don't want to wake up before dawn again, but I don't think I can keep up the fight much longer. No more rain until late Sunday night and early Monday morning, and then Tuesday spring will be back, and on Thursday summer will arrive. At least that's what it looks like in the forecast. I'm not going to think about it. I'm just going to sit here and finish my popcorn and then go to bed.
( Sunday Verse )
Afternoon was intermittently sunny and cloudy, but no more rain fell. It stayed dry enough that I was able to get to the mailbox and find nothing, though FedEx brought the third package from my Wayfair order. This is a roasting pan. Why I bought a roasting pan is not clear to me. A couple of time since I've been in the mini-metropolis I've missed the roasting pan I lost in the fire, though I rarely used it. There is a very good chance that this pan will sit idle until the day I die. But I think I might have covered all this before, so forget it. that's what I did.
Around four o'clock I went back to bed to finish sleeping, but about an hour later I was awakened by aloud peal of thunder. It lasted such along time that I thought it might have been a jet taking off from the airport, but shortly after it faded away there came another, clearly thunder, accompanied by a fresh downpour of rain. I got up to lookout the window and was amazed at how low the gray sky looked, and at how furiously the rain fell. The light looked the way I imagine it would look from inside a translucent pearl. I got back under my covers and listened to the rain and thunder for a while and then, unsurprisingly, rather than being raptured I fell asleep again. The next time I woke it was dusk, and there was no rain. I haven't heard any since, though I can't sear there have been no sprinkles. I was preoccupied making and eating a sandwich, and looking at Idernet and listening to music, and nodding off a lot, like the old guy I actually am.
For the last three hours I've been fighting the urge to go to sleep again, because I don't want to wake up before dawn again, but I don't think I can keep up the fight much longer. No more rain until late Sunday night and early Monday morning, and then Tuesday spring will be back, and on Thursday summer will arrive. At least that's what it looks like in the forecast. I'm not going to think about it. I'm just going to sit here and finish my popcorn and then go to bed.
( Sunday Verse )
