2023 Life Logs, Day 262: Rainy Day
Date: Monday, September 18, 2023
Weather: Rain, Rain, and More Rain; High 68, Low 61 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue, Falmouth, MA
The last time I named a log “Rainy Day” was on July 14. That was an all-day rain. We had plenty of other rainy in June and July, but much of it was heavy rain overnight or for just a period of the day, not the whole day. July 4th was one of those days. We had rain overnight and in the early morning, but then the rain held off. We thought we were going to have fireworks that night, but then the fog came in. During June and July had lots of thunderstorms and heavy rain in the late evening or overnight, lots of cloudy or partly cloudy days, but there were not that many days when I needed an umbrella to go out. But today. I could have used an umbrella. The heaviest rain was in the afternoon, but it was raining when I took Shadow out this morning and still raining when I took him out this afternoon. I don’t think I have put his rain jacket on him since I moved here, but he had to wear it today. The rain did stop for a bit around 6 pm, but then it started raining again and thunderstorms are predicted for tonight. Sometime this week, I am going to buy an umbrella.
The whole summer weather reflection happened after I called Heather this evening. She leaves tomorrow, not for Boston as I thought, but for New York City for Climate Week. That is timed to occur when the UN is in session and that is this week. When I mentioned to her that I needed to buy an umbrella if it is going to continue to rain like this, she reminded me that it had been raining all summer. True, but I have always been able to find a break in the rain to take Shadow out. Not today.
I went to Olga’s house for lunch today and to pick up some clematis that she offered me. It is cuttings, not rooted, but I have read that if you plant the cuttings in soil, some of them might survive. We shall see. And despite the rain, we had a lovely lunch on her beautiful side porch.
I then spent the rest of my afternoon trying to get out from under a ton of emails and paperwork that needed to be filed. I had to go through my emails and delete many of them as my Outlook mailbox was full once again. That has happened to me three times this summer. Becoming co-president of Encore means lots of emails with attachments, so I either have to file the attachments on my computer and delete them from my email or print them out and file them in a notebook. One way or the other, I have to delete them Outlook. Figuring out an email strategy was my afternoon.
