When I typed yesterday that it was raining a lot here, the rain must have taken offence and, in typical "you think that was rain?" retaliation it POURED all night long. Starting at about the time we started making a really delicious meal to go with the utterly fantastic bottle of UNTI wine that my father brought down for us a few months ago. Delicious! The food came out great too- simple pasta and red sauce with lots of fresh basil, shredded chicken, and herbs.

Of course, as we were preparing the meal, we lost power. Beebee slogged off through the deep mud (the street is pretty mushy these days) and came back with a sack full of candles so we enjoyed the rest of our evening by candlelight. Even after the power came back on (it hardly ever stays off for more than an hour or two) we decided to keep the candlelit atmosphere. It was so pretty and relaxing that I crashed out on the couch (what a lazy bum!).

The rain poured down relentlessly all night, with occasional bursts of lighting and thunder that scared the wits out of poor Caly. Or she has finally gotten smart enough to pretend to be scared such that we let her sleep on the bed.

And my jar experiment from yesterday? Useless. The jar was overflowing when I checked on it this morning at 6:30. When it got to the top, I have no idea. But I feel comfortable saying that we got at least six inches of rain last night. And it is still raining now...

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