Oscar Wilde said conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative….

Well, it wuz s'pozed to be raining t'day…Mark Finan is generally pretty much on the money but last nite he said it wudn't gonna really rain on us but it did 'n  t'day, when the forecast clearly shows that it's s'pozed t'be raining, the sun is shining….I expect some sort of cosmic joke on , but, 'n don't tell my children, I've been known to be wrong on occasion…

Speaking of Mark Finan, he's definitely 'n consistently been the best dressed weatherman on Sac Teevee despite his affinity for buttoning every button on his suit coats…recently, he wuz spotted in a double-breasted model (buttoned up tightly, thank you very much)…very dapper is Mr. Finan 'n looked pretty good in a '30s sort of way…'course, if you ain't a fan of old movies, you prob'ly wudn't have noticed that…

Anywaze, it's another one o' them bright, sunshiny northern California daze here in Ol Fair Oaks…lots of people wand'ring the street this mornin'…..turista's seem to congregate at the sidewalk tables of the Deli…I try not to walk da boyz too close there 'cuz Willy is such an egregious beggar 'n Rusty wants attention from every woman he meets…fortunately there is a crosswalk there so having to move into the street to get past the entrance ain't that big o' deal….most drivers think they have to give chickens the right of way anyhow…

I've given up trying to tell people that if they just keep moving (albeit slowly) the durn chickens'll get out of their way… (Interesting aside, during rush hour traffic when so many drivers use Fair Oaks Blvd as a shortcut, they don't seem to have the same regard for pedestrians)…

We stopped to watch as a huge backhoe came down the street 'n turned onto California, did a three-point turn 'n waited while another, smaller backhoe, drove up…the small one gouged out a bucketfull of dirt, off-loaded it to the larger rig 'n then both of 'em drove away, searching for a home, I guess….I cudn't help but think that one guy with a shovel 'n a pick'emup cud'a done the same thing in just about the same amount of time but, of course, I'm old 'n don't understand the way modern technology works….

I wuz just thinkin' that what the country really needs are some labor-making inventions.