It has been raining here for 38 days and 38 nights. I left the windows down on the ark, and it's full of water. I can't find where I have a drain plug in these blueprints -- but they're in Hebrew anyway. I can’t remember a summer quite like this
one. Temperatures have been below
average, generally. The prior two years
were below average in rainfall and, last year especially, very hot. June, usually our wettest month, was a little
drier than normal but July has more than made up for it.
We are about a month off. Spring was late. We had snow during the first week of
May ...
I know! The earth is slowing down. If we don't throw Fat Albert Gore off the planet, we're going to spiral down into the sun! We’re all going to die!
And perhaps we should.
Because of the continuing rain, I stayed up to watch the local news last
night. I rather wish I had skipped
it. First there was a story about a
presidential photo op with some girls who had won something, maybe an NCAA
championship in some sport, possibly having to do with curling irons.
A couple of the girls made “bunny ears” behind Obama’s back. This was a big story – I suppose it was meant
to be amusing – pitched as the “latest scandal”. It ended up mocking the several real scandals,
and the news gave more time to this non-story than they have given to Benghazi and
Fast and Furious combined.
I would also add that they were never “bunny ears” in our
day. They were devil horns. What a bunch of PC wimps.
The second reason I regretted watching the news was a story
about children who are “not ready for kindergarten”. I thought kindergarten was supposed to get a child
ready for school. (People without
kindergarten or Head Start or pre-school went to the Moon, with less computing
power than is in a smart phone.) The
story was pitched like it was one of the ten plagues of Egypt. It was dire.
Doom looms. Of course, the
government has an answer. By employing
otherwise unemployable, useless, overweight women, our children may be saved
from the cruel fate of remedial nap-time.
Yes, we will steal your children from your breast and begin their indoctrination
education while they yet babble incoherently.
They will be delivered from the curse of right-wing family values and
taught to recite their rights to abortion, alternate lifestyles, and hygienic piercing,
as well as the pledge to Satan -- and lubed condoms for all.
Next time, I think I’ll just look out the window to see if
the rain has stopped.
About that rain. I'm loving it. This year has been so nice. No 4 to 6 week drought like we usually get in July or August. Pastures are green and the sheep can't keep up. Maybe this is what living in England is like. I hope it's a permanent change, or a 40 year trend, which would be sufficient.
ReplyDeleteThat's a good point, most likely forty years is indistinguishable from forever as far as we are concerned in this world.
ReplyDeleteIt really is nice. We got under a downpour yesterday, about four inches in a couple of hours. If I have time I'll put up a picture of my driveway.