The Rainy Dayby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( Read more... )

This weekend we had tremendous thunderstorms. Some of the loudest thunder I've ever heard over the past couple of nights. Something in our neighborhood was totally toasted by lightning. It rained Friday evening and night, Saturday almost the entire day, with a brief reprieve for a couple of hours in the afternoon, and then again on Sunday ( Read more... )

I've fallen into a rut of not really writing anything here (yet again) and not really writing e-mail to friends, but checking my e-mail about 475,698 times a day wondering why no one ever writes me. I know why they don't write me, it's because I don't write them ( Read more... )

Look, I know that into every life a little rain must fall ( Read more... )

It rained ridiculously hard this afternoon. For a pretty long time. We got a *lot* of rain. I got soaked on my bike ride home. A lot of the streets were flooded, and at one point when I pedalled my feet were going under the water. That ain't good ( Read more... )

I've been having the most ludicrously vivid dreams lately, so much so that when I wake up I'm quite disoriented to what is real and has happened and what was only in my dreams. The other night I dreamt that I was hanging out with Colin Meloy at his house or apartment or something (the house in my dream was actually a friend's house in South Bend ( Read more... )

And this is what it looks like when I ride my bike home in a downpour.


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The bathroom now has two coats of paint on almost all paintable surfaces. There are a few spots here and there that still don't have any--like way up there at the top of the cathedral ceiling where I couldn't reach with the ladder from yesterday, so I have to get the ladder from the garage. In other words, those parts are going to wait to get ( Read more... )

They were not kidding about the flood warning. Our backyard easily has two to three inches of standing water, with rain still falling. And it's all going to come through my basement. Well, most of it anyway ( Read more... )

It is raining softly outside my office window right now. The sky is a blue-tinted grey and the rich greens of the trees across the quad keep covering themselves in shadow as the wind moves the branches in a meandering dance with no steps and no music.

It's quite peaceful to watch.