It’s still foggy ‘n yucky outside but it’s warmer here than in most of the country ‘n if I had a mind to, I c’d just climb in the car ‘n head for the high country.....well, not so high as to run into the snow but up in the foothills, maybe Auburn or thereabouts where the sun is shining ‘n blue skies abound ‘n people are wearing sunglasses ‘n you know that you’re in California.....
Christmas is over ‘n down comes the tree....’bout time, I s’poze tho’ all those lights sure brighten up a gloomy day ‘n this time of year northern California c’n certainly be gloomy....one of the good things about being old is that I don’t have to go out ‘n play in the fog anymore....like brother John sez, “Just make another pot of coffee ‘n gaze out the window ‘n think how pretty the snow is.”
Those tule fogs c’n be bad...I remember the CHP would run convoys escorting travelling folk thru the fog....one nite I was on a side road that crossed the Stanislaus (I think) river...the fog was so thick that I put the truck into 1st gear ‘n stood on the running board following the center line in the road....I drove right thru the middle of a wreck...right past an officer holding a lantern up ‘n staring me in the face...if they hadn’t had the vehicles off to the side, I’da hit ‘em....well, it ain’t me out there any more but somebody is out there trying to make a living or maybe just trying to get home....
I know we need the rain ‘n the snow ‘n if we had a year of way more than normal precip, it wouldn’t hurt us at all since we seem to be living in a land of almost perpetual drought.... we Californians spend our water the same way our Legislature spends our money.....eat, drink ‘n be merry for t’morrow, God willing, there’ll be another gold rush.....g’nite all ‘n don’t let the bedbugs bite......
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