Well, Sins, the neighbors have the market on mean dogs. And I'd hate to use a post office box but I will if I have to.

Barbara, did you get clobbered down where you are? Did you mean you got 16" to 24"?

We have rain showers sweeping in over us today. The sky will be bright, then get dimmer. I look up to see the mountains fading behind a curtain of gray. And then the rain pours down hard for a few minutes, moves on and the sun comes out.

This morning, coming down off the mountain, I noticed that the horizon was gone. The gray sea ran on to find the gray sky and there was no distinguishing the difference. I remember seeing something similar on a clear morning. The colors then were blue and no apparent horizon. And floating out there, either in the sea or in the sky, was a ship with a red hull and pale yellow superstucture. The colors were vivid.