Lights Out

[rejectomorph]

Still snowless, the night resounds to gusty winds which cast raindrops clattering against the window, while pines emit moans and the creaky mulberry branch scrapes the rain gutter to make the eaves shudder. For a while, thin fog drifted here and there while the rain yet fell. I listen for the silence which might indicate the beginning of snow, but it hasn't come. Sometimes, snow only begins to fall after dawn, so I still might wake to a white world. Snow or not, it will be the fourth consecutive day on which we have not seen the sun. I begin to feel as though I am in Seattle.

Comments

[waning-estrogen.livejournal.com]

what? are you paying $5 for a cup of coffee?

[rejectomorph]

I think I'd have to go down the hill to Chico to do that. But I'm not going in this weather.

Actually, we do have a couple of locally-owned fancy coffee places in town now, but I've never been to them, so I don't know how much they get away with charging. But for five bucks, I'd rather buy a pint of Ben & Jerry's, or a few bottles of Guinness.

[waning-estrogen.livejournal.com]

they don't charge me anything. I do my drinking in the privacy of my own home. and I don't have to get out of my jammies or learn a new language to place an order. advantages to being a cheapskate, I guess.