This is not a political blog…

I know I keep telling everyone that but then I keep on talking about politics ’til I even begin to bore my own self…sort'a like NorCal weather that’s mainly  pretty much the same day after day, sunshine and blue skies, warm to hot, etcetera…

In our NorCal winters, the weather is much like Spring back in the States…rainy ’n cool here in the valley, snow in the Sierra…

I think it was Mark Twain that described the central valley of California as a place where summer came to spend the winters…Anyhow, I began this blog back in ’06 as a way to keep family informed of my tete a tete with the Big C and when that was finished, I couldn’t figure out a way to stop talking…

So, I don’t really just talk about politics tho’ it may seem that way at times…mainly, I just BS about whatever happens to wander through my tho’ts…which this morning happened to be focused on Sausage, biscuits ’n strawberry preserves….oh, and coffee…

I, (well, we) set all the clocks ahead last nite, jumped in bed, covered my head ’n waited for maybe two or three minutes before I fell asleep…I woke, of course, the prescribed number of times throughout the night as old guys are wont to do but, all in all, it was a pleasant night...

There’s a change in the weather this first day of the Autumnal time change…overcast ’n coolish this morning and a forecast of rain….the rain will be welcome, of course, but the forecast also claims that it’s gonna snow on the Sierra and that is really  good news…the more snow, the better because our progressive government hasn’t been progressive enough to come up with an idea of how to save rain water 

Well, to be fair, throughout most of our history (which ain’t that awful long as hist’ry goes) Mother Nature has saved up the water for us by lavishing snow on the top of our mountains through the winters and releasing it through the time-honored method of snow melt in our warmish summers…

Of course, that has never taken into account the drought situation that we’re in at the moment…that it’s a momentary thing, there is probably no doubt…weather, after all, tends to cycle (no matter what the Henny Penny’s among us claim…the sky isn’t falling)…according to our prognosticators, we are in the middle of an historic drought…it’s historic because we haven’t experienced this long of a drought in the several hundred years that we’ve inhabited California and kept records of the weather…

Our esteemed scientists (factual persons, everyone) have studied tree rings and rock formations, tea leaves and coffee grounds and have determined that we haven’t had such a drought here in millennia, or some such…it might even portend the end of the world as we know it…the heat is going to melt the glaciers at the poles, the sea is going to rise and inundate the land, lemmings are going to jump off the mountains (into the sea, I imagine), Nevada is going to be beachfront property, Idaho is to be the new Oregon…not sure what part Canada is going to play but I’m sure that the RCMP will have something to say about it...

And now, it seems, the rain has come...