Weather notes.....

Just out walkin’ in the rain....me’n Rusty ‘n Willie...we didn’t even get t’the halfway point in our little stroll when the raindrops got fatter ‘n wetter...Rusty didn’t mind turning tail ‘n coming home but Willie saw no need for it at all..’course, Willie is young ‘n the raindrops don’t bother him much....
me ‘n Rusty being older ‘n California raindrops being on the chilly side decided us in a hurry howsomever ‘n in a hurryup caucus ‘n me with the deciding vote, we headed home where for the first time in months, the furnace kicked on....I guess our long summer is finally over...it was a pretty good one as summers go...better than most, as a matter of fact....Summer here in nothern California tend t’be on the warmish side, hovering in the 90’s a good bit of the time ‘n with a number of days going over the century mark....this year was an exceptional year in that regard...we only had a few days in the triple digits ‘n managed to maintain our welcome ‘n highly valued ‘Delta Breeze’....a lot of norCal don’t get the Delta breeze ‘n that’s a fact....south of Stockton don’t get it ‘n nighttime temps down there tend t’stay in the uncomfortable zone ‘n ‘way up in norCal, they don’t get it at all...ever....why one nite, a long, long time ago, I was in Red Bluff, sitting in a saloon at 1:30 in the A.M. trying to cool off with a low-alcoholic beverage ‘n passing the time with some of the local residents... the outside temperature was 113 degrees ‘n the locals were comparing it to remembered heat waves of days gone by...As I stated, this was in days gone by ‘n most taverns ‘n such weren’t air-conditioned back then....what they had was big ceiling fans that eddied ‘round ‘n ‘round to give the illusion that somewhere there might be, must be a cooling breeze....
Anyways, it appears today that our long ‘n somewhat languid summer is over ‘n we’re faced with another Sacramento winter...
Last winter, we had lots of rain ‘n lots of snow on the Sierra....(by the way, sierra is plural meaning mountain ranges, as in more than one mountain...I only state the obvious herein becuz so many teevee announcers keep referring to the sierras)
Lots of snow in the mountains is good becuz ever’body down here in the valley uses lots of water in the long hot summers.
plus, we got to send a whole big bunch of our water down to the folks in La La Land to keep ‘em from coming up here....not that I’m prejudiced or anything against those southern Californio’s...like Juan Williams, I don’t hold with bigotry ‘n racism ‘n I believe everyone should stand equal before the law....it’s just that the thought of southern Californians coming here en masse, so to speak, makes me nervous.....
I’m just sayin......