We might have had a sprinkle or two yesterday (30% chance of rain) but we’ve had the first serious rainfall in months today. I don’t know exactly when it started, but I heard it coming down heavily at around 6:30 a.m. accompanied by thunder and lightning. I heard chirping outside the kitchen window an hour later and looked out to see some mockingbirds frolicking in the puddles that had formed there.
The rain has been more or less steady since then. We’ve received over an inch and in some parts of the county there’s been as much as two inches. That sounds like a lot, but it’s pretty routine for around here…except for this year. We’re still over a dozen inches behind on annual rainfall and it looks like the hot dry weather will return by the weekend. One of the other benefits of the overcast, rainy weather: it’s only 71° this afternoon instead of 101.
Didn’t get all the way through the new short story this morning. Only made it to page eight out of thirteen. However, by then I’d already lost 250 words to the trashcan and I suspect I’ll be able to trim nearly as many again in the final four or five pages. That will get me down to within a couple of hundred words of the maximum. Another pass after that and I should be there.
Watched another episode of Six Feet Under last night. I think we’re near the halfway point of Season Two. Brenda and Nate make one of the weirdest couples. She’s doing wacky stuff with her massage clients and he has a possibly fatal condition that he hasn’t told her about yet. Patricia Clarkson stole the episode as Ruth’s flaky sister. Loved her brief, dramatic speech at the end when she disabused Ruth of the notion that her life has been all fun.
Burn Notice starts up again this week. Slowly, bit by bit, there’s starting to be things worth while watching on TV again this summer. I watched the latest dumped episode of Law & Order: Los Angeles last night. Not one of their best efforts.
