Logjam

The rain hasn't been as heavy today, sometimes it is just a wet drizzle, but it hasn't really stopped either. It took both of us to coax Spike out of the house and down to the bridge. I may not have worded my stream of consciousness rambling about rain and wimpy Californians very well. I am actually full of admiration for people who get out no matter the weather. It has only taken two days of constant rain to make me realize that getting out is necessary for sanity and if it is raining all the time one just has to go out in the rain! as for the comment about murdering someone, what can I say? I have been watching too many British mysteries! Going for a walk to 'get some fresh air ' seems to be a preptty common alibi.

The logjam continues to grow and the creek is lined with trees that are either leaning or uprooting themselves as the soil gets wetter. Most of them were already stressed by the fire. It has pretty successfully dammed one side of the creek but the other side seems to be flowing freely. Nobody seems to know who this little patch of land belongs to. Theoretically the cleanup is the responsibility of the landowner, but with climate change and more drastic conditions of all kinds, it seems unrealistic to expect ta single homeowner to shoulder the entire responsibility for cleaning up debris that has clearly washed down from further up the creek. There are cut logs and burned PG&E power poles in this pile.

I'm cooking dinner for Jim tonight as Dana has gone to the gem show in Tucson with her friend Leigh. I made a pot of chili, a tres leches cake and some cornbread. What I laughingly call my 'baking center' didn't prove to be much more convenient...Instead of going around the corner for the flour and sugar stored in the pantry cupboard, I had to carry mixing spoons and bowls into the kitchen sink,  but at least I didn't have to lift the increasingly heavy Kitchen Aid mixer out of a cupboard. 

I am struggling between knowing what kind of havoc has been wreaked by the Felon in the last 24 hours and trying to avoid the news altogether. It will probably be some combination. Today I share a bit of 'humor' from a political cartoon in the paper this morning. A couple is standing in front of the dairy case in the grocery store and she is saying to him, 'I'm not an economist, but I don't think deporting all the farmworkers is going to make the eggs cheaper.'