I just searched my 2025 training log for “rain” and came up empty. Just like our rain gauge.
Until this morning.
As we began puttering around the Compound, getting our Sunday started, Herself said she thought she heard sprinkles tippy-tapping the skylights. But I said naw, warn’t nothin’ in the forecast.
But suddenly there it was, on the walkway. Not much, but it’s all good, amirite?
As news goes it certainly beats a hummer I saw in The New York Times this morning about some bloated sack of shit whose claim to fame — beyond boinking Madge Toilet Grout, that is — was asking President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine why he wasn’t wearing a suit to his ambush by — pardon, “meeting with” — that other, better-known, bloated sack of shit, who also gets too much press.
I got asked a similar question once, by a supervisor, during a performance review. It was majorly annoying, as I had been busting my hump for that two-bit cage-liner, which couldn’t keep its city and copy desks staffed, and they should’ve been delighted that I showed up for work at all, much less wearing a button-down shirt and tie.
Shit, they were lucky I didn’t show up butt-nekkid, knee-walking, commode-hugging drunk. But I was, after all, a professional. I was always fully clothed.
I fled that rag as soon as I could find another job. Any old asshole can wear a tie, and plenty of them do. Especially on TV.
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4-9 inches of the white stuff forecast for Black Forest here in the Bibleburg environs Monday night. High winds too!
Speaking of “appropriate dress”, check out last night’s SNL take on the “very successful” Trump/Zelenskyy White House meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUpOMSJ1MdU. Viewer discretion advised. 🙂
Wow, JD. You folks just keep on getting it, eh? Less mountain biking and more snowshoeing. …
Mike Myers nailed it.
Of course. He’s Canadian, eh.
We finished last year with 3 inches less than normal. Normal annual rainfall here is 14 inches. We got 0.2 inches on November 3rd of last year. Nothing since. Had our first red flag fire danger day yesterday. I fear more, a lot more, are coming soon. Don’t move to AZ, especially Phoenix. We are running out of water with mostly climate change deniers in the legislature.
We’re likewise way down, and our weather wizard, John Fleck, fears that the Benighted States of Muskovia (a division of TrumpWorld™) may no longer be a reliable partner in Western water management. Imagine our surprise.
Given that Adolph tRump and company are doing their best to kill off our auto makers here, I’m guessing there will be some real bargains on housing soon. And we gots the water folks. But maybe no jobs. Can’t have everything. But if you are retired or can work from home, don’t mind winter, the Mitten State is the place. Oh and too, we are really close to Canada if you want to bail completely on this pitiful state of government. Over the years we’ve lost some population as the weakest minded have moved to Tex-ass and Flor-a-duh. Ok…the scary pothole stories are true but we do have lots and lots of bike paths now although there may be snow on them during winter.
On the way home from Denver I took a side trip into the B-burg and did a drive-by on our old digs in the Patty Jewett Yacht & Gun Club ’hood. I could go back there. Coffee shop a short stroll to the south; groceries, hardware, and banking within easy cycling distance; parks and trails in abundance. What’s not to like?
Well … there is that whole winter thing.
Someone had to move the snow off the sidewalk.
Sadly, one must go where the high paying gig is. But, once herself retires, would you buy both those houses again?
I live in refugee area NW Montana, have winter and Pacific NW overcast but the
CA and deep south refugees flock here cuz it is white and Redneck. We have water but median housing prices are 550 K with 80K for two family income, that math really works for mierda. When we pull the plug it is New Mexico or hidden parts of Southern CO. Or I just talked to the Slovenian Consulate about going back to the land of my grandfather, it seems I can get citizenship with the proper documents. This sh&tshow is getting scary. My Father and Uncle both served in WWII one in the South Pacific, the other in Europe, They would kick the crap out of me for saying that but the times they are a changing.