The sun tried to break through this afternoon. I saw a strange brightness in the sky and a yellow glow behind a light grey cloud so I darted out onto the porch, tilted my head upward, and reached my hands to the heavens trying to capture the glow..................then it was overshadowed by deep opaqueness (is that a word?) and it was gone. The rain gauge shows 2 more inches today. Eight inches of rain since Monday. I checked my feet to see if they were webbed yet. The creek is thunderous. Temperature is dropping to a low of 26, more normal for January nights. A perfect night for a warm Carrot-Cauliflower Soup with Tarragon. It's a nice thick winter soup. Cliff had rye bread with his and I had hummus on Ak-Mak crackers. Rumor has it there will be a sunrise tomorrow morning.
Some days are full of doing tasks and chores that Cliff did for me. The floor wasn't that dirty but he enjoyed saying. "Guess I need to pull out the vacuum. I'm tripping over debris." I thanked him. Whenever I was in the kitchen trying out new recipes, making cookies or the double batch tapioca pudding for him, he was there beside (getting in my way sometimes) washing the utensils, pots/pans, cutting boards, drying them and putting everything back in their proper places only to have me take some things back out and reuse again. "I just washed that" he would state. He learned to ask if I were through with things before he cleaned up after me. I thanked him. He emptied the dishwasher when it was finished in such an orderly manner (getting in my way sometimes because I was also in the kitchen working but he wanted to be there with me). I thanked him. Every morning he made my bed reminding me of the order that the pillows needed to be placed. John&
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