Look carefully at the first two pics.
RAIN. Buckets. Say 50mm in 24 hours, that’s 2 inches if you’re old, or American, or both.
A photo of the rain is also included, taken out the back window five minutes ago. Yeh, I know, it’s really hard to photograph rain…
So I did what every self-respecting young tech-savvy Boomer does – I googled “What do you do on a rainy day?”….you know… for ideas. Got all
Let me summarize the suggestions:
- Drinking wine with some friends
- Stay home with my own blanket
- Eat instant noodles
- Reading books
- Watch TV
- Surf internet
- Stay inside with my love
- I love to walk on a rainy day
- I think of anything
- Make a cup of tea
- Candles, music, telephone calls
- Cook rice with coconut
- Stay in bed
- Nice music
- Walk through a forest
- Look out of window and think about life
- Collect the raindrops and test their pH
I really only liked the last suggestion, as I do have a pH meter in the shed, but my spoil-sport wife put the kibosh on that idea when I suggested it. She has very little interest in scientific challenges.
I consoled myself by jumping into the digital surf again and learning there are 800 songs with the words “Rainy” in the title, and 15 with “Rainy Day”, of which I had 3 on my iTunes library. I picked one and played it, loud, seven times, until my wife said “For God’s sake go outside and measure your silly pH…” I have Jimi’s “Rainy Day, Dream Away” to thank:
“Rainy day, rain all day, Ain’t no use in gettin’ uptight, Just let it groove it’s own way, Let it drain your worries away, yeah Lay back and groove on a rainy day, hey, Lay back and dream on a rainy day”