{"id":134,"date":"2002-12-16T23:22:15","date_gmt":"2002-12-17T07:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=134"},"modified":"2005-09-23T22:05:58","modified_gmt":"2005-09-24T06:05:58","slug":"im-dreaming-of-a-wet-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"I’m Dreaming of a Wet Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

I must confess. I didn’t go caroling over the weekend as planned. The hostess needed to reschedule due to an illness in the family, but if nothing else pops up, we’re still on for the next weekend. It’s just as well that it got moved though because the week started out with darkened stormy skies, and today it rained steadily, so steadily that the road that I was on over the weekend is now flooded out.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t usually rain at this time of the year in this area. The rain usually waits until January to let loose and wreak all kinds of havoc, and Christmas is typically a crisp, brisk season, where people can go from door to door like normal human beings, drunk and bellowing like whales, or snacking on health food and coffee in between shopping trips for Thigh Masters.<\/p>\n

This year, it’s a little bit damp out. Maybe just a tad. The last time it rained this hard (and we have two more storms coming up), million-dollar houses with breathtaking million-dollar views fell down muddy million-dollar hillsides and caused many million-dollar tears. I don’t know. I will never understand why filthy stinking rich people insist on living in houses that stand on worthless crumbling decomposing limestone. But really, that’s okay by me. It’s their money, not mine.<\/p>\n

But in the meantime, their houses will be blocking all sea-side roads to keep people from going anywhere important, so I guess we can all look forward to staying home for the holidays and letting it rain, letting it rain, letting it rain.<\/p>\n

So how come all those pretty Christmas cards have all that white stuff all over the place, anyway? What is<\/i> that?<\/p>\nShare this post:

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I must confess. I didn’t go caroling over the weekend as planned. The hostess needed to reschedule due to an illness in the family, but if nothing else pops up, we’re still on for the next weekend. It’s just as well that it got moved though because the week started out with darkened stormy skies, and today it rained steadily, so steadily that the road that I was on over the weekend is now flooded out. It doesn’t usually rain…<\/p>\n

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