Since the flood of '82

Folks in Marin are talking about the recent flooding (which shut down a Mill Valley package store JUST before New Year's Eve and left yuppies screaming on the sidewalk), so many stores ruined, nothing like this since the flood of '82, that's 1982 to y'all.

The bay water is decidedly brown today, lots of streams running at full capacity still. Everywhere I drove I detected the aroma of food cooking . . . I don't know, why do you think it smells so much nicer when there's fresh air all around?

Another nice thing I noticed today was that I didn't have to hear my cell phone ringing. Mostly because mine died and it will take a lot of energy to deal with Cingular when they tell me they never received the unusable Blackberry I mailed back to them. I will try to do that tomorrow, I should not be driving around with no cell phone, but for now . . . it's nice not to have it on my mind.

I bought myself a new journal today, this one is brown and smaller, works better in my purse even though it weighs a ton for what it is. And today we received a lovely holiday card with a sweet personal note from folks we hardly see, always a nice surprise.

Tomorrow I will bake challah, enough for two weeks so I can take next week off while I'm having chemo.

Pray for continued nice weather.