August 21, 2013 (Wednesday)
The rain yesterday brought a seldom-seen sight to my back door: water creeping over the concrete floor of the patio. When I looked out the door, focusing on the water edging toward the door, I wanted to say,”Hello, Darlin’. It’s been a long time. Nice to see you again. Where have you been?” The rain was good. The forecast is for more of the same this week. I hope it holds true.
How would you like to be a T.V. weatherman? My grand daughter has a friend who became one. Went to school and became a meteorologist. After appearing on television for a while, he suddenly quit. He went back to college, got a degree in something else and left the “weatherman” idea behind. Why? He said, “It’s no fun being ridiculed by your friends.” Sometimes it’s hard to know what’s going to happen. Weather systems can misbehave.
She also told me about the “weather lady” in San Diego, California, where she used to live. The weather there is just about perfect every day, so the television station hired the most beautiful weather lady they could find, and relied on her attractiveness to get people to watch the forecasts. The forecast was the same every day: “Beautiful.”
“Rainy days and Mondays always get me down,” was the key line of a song by Paul Williams and Roger Nichols, made famous by “The Carpenters.” But in the days of drought, only Mondays can get us down; rainy days are always welcome. (You can spell it, “drouth,” but it’s just as dry. Actually, it sounds drier somehow).
Paraphrasing a good old song: “The weather outside is frightful, but the fire A/C is so delightful, and since we’ve no place to go, let it snow rain, let it snow rain, let it snow rain.”