Frost Kissed Geranium Leaves

The weather mavens have been telling us for a week that there is an "atmospheric river" pointed directly at the San Francisco Bay Area. We are to prepare for heavy rain, high winds, downed trees, floods, power outages and general mayhem.

It is definitely wet outside, and dark, but doesn't strike me as out of the ordinary. It probably didn't strike my brother Rick as a good reason to postpone his trip up here with Meg either, but his buddy the pilot, who apparently has enhanced access to weather information has convinced him.

I don't usually write about the weather, but just as I was about to write this yesterday, when the weather was sunny and very cold, the Blipfoto website went down. All seems to be well now with Blipfoto but the weather is completely different, so what else can I write about?

Ozzie won't go outside. The news is all about Trump and the Republicans co-opting all the good things Obama has tried to do for eight years, and trashing the rest and the Russians interfering in our election. It's like living in some weird parallel universe.

Looks like a good day to watch every single episode of Downton Abbey non-stop.