Oh, Not Again, Noah!!!

This evening, the rain is falling soft against my office window. It has been raining all day. It has been raining most of the week. We have a few days of sunshine and then it rains again. Since I got home from Florida in the middle of April, we have had only a handful of days that were warm and sunny.

I don't recall a spring quite this wet. Is it the law of averages catching up with us because of a terrible drought last summer? Probably not, since averages are not that perfect. Is God punishing us for some reason? I doubt it. The good book says it rains on the just and the unjust.

Perhaps Mother Nature is shedding tears of sorrow. She has a right to, you know. The inhabitants of her planet have surely made a terrible mess of her ecology. That's a nice poetic thought, but the earth does not have human feelings. However, there is more than a grain of truth in the idea. Our contributions toward global warming are really upsetting the balance of climates around the world. I am sure that as global warming continues, we will have more and more extremes in our weather. We will experience those extremes both in hot and cold temperatures as well as in extreme drought and extreme precipitation.

Well, the weather is depressing enough without piling on a guilt trip. Was it Mark Twain or was it Will Rogers who said, "Everyone talks about the weather, but noone does anything about it?" I don't remember and I'm too lazy to look it up. Frankly, I don't think it really matters. I just wish it would stop raining and get warm again.

So, I guess tonight I'll stay indoors, have a cup of coffee, listen to a little music, and maybe snuggle up a little closer to my Mary. Hmm! That doesn't sound too bad. Maybe the sun will be out tomorrow after all. Oh No, now I'll spend the evening trying to get, Annie's song "The Sun'll Come Up Tomorrow" out of my head. Aha, now you'll be humming it too. Gotcha!

- The Old Professor