Late last week it started to rain.<\/p>\n
It rained for several days. This was a good thing — we’ve had a bit of a drought here in Maryland this summer. The reservoir has fallen a good fifteen feet or more. The newspapers run stories about homes without water.<\/p>\n
And the temperatures fell. The middle of last week the temperatures were hovering around the mid-nineties. As the rain fell, temperatures fell into the sixties.<\/p>\n
As late as Wednesday, our high temperature was around sixty-five.<\/p>\n
Sixty-five degrees. In August.<\/p>\n
It was foggy. It was soppy. Hard rains fell. Soft rains fell.<\/p>\n
And then, Thursday, the clouds broke. The temperature hit the mid-seventies.<\/p>\n
Now?<\/p>\n
Mid-nineties again. Incredibly<\/i> humid. We live in a sodding jungle. A minute outside takes one’s breath away.<\/p>\n
Oppressive.<\/p>\n
I miss the rains down in Africa.<\/p>\n
Oh, sorry. I’m channelling Toto there.<\/p>\n
Blech. :\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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