Day 5 - 13 -- A World Gone Mad

The world must have gone mad. Outside my window winds blew in warmer air. Predictions were for 12-13C and it was 17-18C instead. For mid-January, that is bizarre. All remaining snow and ice melted overnight. Rain began in the afternoon. Less fell than predicted, but enough to be happy it was rain and not snow. Now we hear a flash freeze is advancing. In Ontario, in eight minutes the temperature fell 7 degrees. That reminded me of the images from The Day After Tomorrow -- scary, though not overly realistic. Our temperature is to fall about 20C by morning to just below freezing. This will bring risk of some bits of freezing rain.

Into early afternoon the furry one enjoyed a new catnip filled toy resulting in major puffy tail and fully dilated pupils. This was followed by a long nap. This made me smile and link this to the way Mother Nature has been operating lately and the incredulity in meteorologist reports. A single line of a song has been running through my head for most of the day. I do hear them with a slight change in word use -- 'must be' rather than 'must get'. Apologies to the Nobel Prize winner who wrote the original lyrics. Granted the song is about something entirely different, but that is where my lateral thinking process netted out today <grin>. I chose a cover version from a concert in honour of the singer-songwriter. Enjoy!

Rainy Day Women #12 and #35 -- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers