rain

It was about two in the morning when I was stirring in bed to the sound of thunder and getting reading for a bathroom run. I was certain that it was a dry thunder. The possibility of rain didn't even enter my head. However, when I got up, I decided to look out the window for kicks, and sure enough, it was raining. Not hard. But it was definitely more than one of those three-minute semi-showers.

The cats did come inside in pretty quick order, and it was not long afterward that the storm really broke. A good, strong, lasting rain. A rain the region has needed desperately. And I definitely won't be watering on Tuesday.

My sleep was seriously abridged, but as much as I absolutely have to have my sleep, I could sacrifice a couple of hours for the breaking of this drought.

I shaved

I shaved. I wasn't going to do that. I was thinking, even if I do take one more library trip before the summer settles in, my short hair affords me the luxury of being a little bushy faced. But I have decided that I will take one more trip downtown, even though I have no more library business to conduct, in order to get one more plate of chicken fried rice under my belt, so to speak, before becoming homebound for the long four months of summer, and in so deciding, I worked up a little force of will to keep shaved for another few weeks, before I go into caveman mode.