You may have noticed that there hasn't been much writing going on here lately. It's the #*&^@!! digital camera. I scamper about in a near-foaming frenzy whenever anything vaguely resembling a photo op catches my eye. (A happy near-foaming frenzy, but still.) I tinker with the resulting blizzard of photos, resizing them, resizing them again, pasting them on this page. I re-paste, I re-re-paste, I reorganize, I re-re-re-paste. That's a full day right there, forget tending to the rest of my existence.
It's a good thing when new interests hijack one's life, isn't it? (Just say yes.)
Yesterday: big rain, falling water pounding away on the roof through the night, the morning and the afternoon. Come evening, the clouds cleared out, brief sunlight gave way to early darkness and a cold night. Today: morning fog burned off, the temperature sailed up into the 70s.
Folks walked around Montpelier in summer clothes, happy, smiling. Until the sun approached the western horizon, when the temperature careened downward and happy, smiling people in summer clothes became underdressed expanses of gooseflesh, rubbing arms to counteract sudden chill, staring at each other in wide-eyed disbelief at the sudden shift from summer to early winter.
I happened to hear a weather report today in which gradually cooling temperatures were predicted for the coming days, with the possibility of the season's first snow showers next week. That's right: Snow. Showers. Here. Next week. (Aaaaiiiiieeee!!!)
Needless to say, that got me pulling apart the stovepipes in hasty preparation for pre-season cleaning. I'll clean and reassemble them tomorrow (which, if one is to believe the same weather people who are terrifying us with talk of approaching snow, will be cold, gray, rainy) and I will not hesitate to fire up the coal stove should the indoor temperature get my breath misting.
Despite the unnerving conditions in Montpelier, at least two people remained hard at work posting handbills on Main Street, in the face of meterological goofiness.
Handbill #1:
"Edified Presents
FUNKY HO-DOWN
Friday, Oct. 10
9 p.m. until ??
The Caspian Lake Grange Hall
Greensboro, VT"
Handbill #2:
"Want to feel
awesome and
fulfill your
deepest
desires?
"come to an 8-week workshop at yoga
mountain to learn the basic game rules.
"for the life you choose. think fun."
rws 11:51 PM [+]