November, the way it use’ta be….rainy ’n cold ’n snow on the mountain…

I keep checking the thermostat, seems like it’s just gotta be sumthin’ wrong, it’s too darn cold in the old manor house…Willy keeps lookin’ at me, “Let’s go outside ’n play…” is what I believe he might be thinking but every time we step out the door, he stands on the porch looking puzzled, then turns around and wants to go back inside…he’s a smart dog…

Mark Finan has been having a rare old time, pontificating about the possibility of a tornado in Elk Grove, anticipating its path, he’s been positively gleeful about it…

‘Course, Folsom Lake is still at only about 15% of normal so the drought is still with us ’n likely t’be for some time….be a hoot if we wuz to get 40 or 50 feet of snowpack the way it wuz in the olden daze…Course, that kind’a typifies California, boom or bust…that’s the way it’s been since the great Gold Rush of 1849…some of the wealthiest people in the whole darn US of A reside here in California…well, not here in Olde Faire Oakes prezackly tho’ we do got some of the near wealthy or almost near wealthy…Why, not too far from here, up around Folsom Lake, there’s a sort of haven for basketball players ’n suchlike…

There really wealthy live down in The Bay Area or some of the fancier enclaves tucked away in So Cal…But, we also got some of the nations poorest people with about half the population living on some sort of welfare…if we get a change of regime in Washington, D.C. and they pull the Obama money out of California, we could make Greece look like a European success story…

Anyhow, the winter that we haven’t been having for several years now seems to have returned so let's give a big collective HURRAH for El Nino!