“There is peace even in the storm.”
Last night we got a dusting of snow. It started around 2. I went to bed. When I woke up this morning, I could hear the rain. I looked out the window and the dusting, now filled with rain holes, is slushy. It is supposed to rain all day.
I am still getting better. The coughing is pretty much gone. My voice, though, is still a bit hoarse. I have energy again. Last night I washed the upstairs bathroom floor. Today it is the downstairs. My house has been neglected. Dust is everywhere. At least I have no trash.
When I was a kid, the dusting would have been hopeful. Maybe it would snow all night so we’d have no school. I remember running to the window first thing in the morning and being disappointment.
I love rainy days. I didn’t love them so much when I was a kid as I always got wet walking to school. My classroom used to smell like wet wool. My shoes used to bubble. My socks got soaked. Coats dripped on the cloakroom floor. The puddles stayed all day.
I remember getting home from school on a rainy day. I’d be soaked. My mother would have me hang my coat in the cellar to drip dry. My shoes went on the mat, my school uniform in the closet. I usually put on my pajamas, the coziest clothes. I’d lie in bed and read by the bed lamp hanging on my headboard. I’d read until supper.
I find my house comforting in the rain. I can hear the drops falling all around me, but I’m warm and cozy and dry. The dark day is blunted by the lamp on the table. The rest of the house is dark. The dogs are asleep beside me. Nala is under the afghan. They are not lovers of rain.
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January 16, 2024 at 2:26 pm
Hi Kat,
Glad to hear you are feeling better. With RSV, pneumonia, and Covid-19 still going around, a bad cough at our advanced age can be dangerous. I don’t feel like I’m at an advanced age until I try to do something and muscles heart in places I didn’t know even had them. 🙂
Yesterday I worked from home because we supposedly had lake effect snow of an inch and a half. Our lakes aren’t big enough for lake effect snow, but that’s what the TV meteorologist called it. Mostly I was concerned about ice on the roads, especially the bridges and overpasses. Yesterday morning the entire freeway near my house was shutdown in one direction until late afternoon from a multiple car pileup. The several cars were probably going way too fast and crashed. The height of stupidity was after the pile up, a numbskull driving a red pickup truck slammed into a city of Grapevine fire truck, who was working the accident on the freeway. The driver of the pickup was trying to go around the wreckage. Luckily non of the fireman were injured. I don’t know how many people were hurt in the pileup, but the numbskull in the pickup wasn’t heart.
Today, the temperature was down to 10° when I awoke but I taught a class remotely from home. Right now it’s not too bad, the temperature is 23°. I could probably drive to work except for the cold temperatures. My part of the office is not heated. The sun is shining and almost all the frozen stuff has sublimated. I can do the same nothing at home as at the office since I completed the training. 🙂
January 16, 2024 at 8:50 pm
Hi Bob,
I have had all the shots: the Covid booster, RSV, pneumonia, flu and shingles. What I had was none of these. It is its own disease.
The Cape Cod Hospital is out of room. The ER is filled with people who have this. They even opened a section usually unneeded. This illness seems to clean in three weeks or a month. The cough is the worst.
We are above freezing now though it is supposed to get really cold tonight, down to te 20’s. Luckily the rain has stopped, and the snow is just about gone. My uke practice was either in person or on Zoom. I chose Zoom.
Bridges and overpassesare certainly the most dangerous. They freeze first. We, when I was in college, slid on an overpass and almost went over the edge. We were not even going quickly. It was the scariest ride.
We got maybe an inch of snow before the rain started. The rest of the state, especially the western part, got more, up to a foot in the mountains. I am forever thankful for the ocean.