April Showers

Well, it's not quite April just yet, but the rainy season has definitely started. On Monday, we had the first rain of the year. Before that it was far too cold for rain. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday had lots of rain, and now the disgusting brown and black crusty ice that covers everything is withering away like the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. Thank you Lord. I am sick of winter. Tonight I was shopping at a nearby supermarket, and while in the checkout line, I saw this monitor screen, which usually displays advertisements, had videos of canyon landscapes in Utah and Colorado. I felt an intense ache within myself. I missed my home. I miss the west. I miss so much. I felt like an Israelite in Babylon. Poor Navina had to listen to me whine, but she's quite happy herself, as she gets to leave in five weeks. Actually, she is happy and sad. I'm sure I will be too, once it sets in that I am leaving. That seems like a long way away right now.