Rainy Saturday in October

• My lit­tle town is putting on a fall fes­ti­val this week­end, and so they had sched­uled a parade for this morn­ing. But with the usual con­trari­ness of weather, it seems like they have been granted the very worst day ever on which to hold a parade. Yesterday’s mild tem­per­a­tures have dipped down five degrees, and a solid pelt­ing of cold rain is com­ing down like it will never stop.

  I’m sorry they’ve had to can­cel their fes­tiv­i­ties and take a hit to the city’s cof­fers, but it’s so pleas­ant to sit and lis­ten to the falling rain that I can’t com­plain. Clemen­tine the hound dog, on the other hand, is quite offended. She would love to fall into the stu­por that all ani­mals seem prone to when the rain comes down, but occa­sional gusts of wind are open­ing and shut­ting our big heavy side gate, giv­ing her the impres­sion that law­less tres­passers are invad­ing our back yard. And so she’s con­vinced that, as the psalmist indi­cates, our ene­mies and myr­iad and they are strong.

  Def­i­nitely a morn­ing for a sec­ond pot of tea. And I may have to crank up the bread maker. There’s not much in this world that com­pares with fresh bread and but­ter on a cold fall day.

  
  

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