Ray's Thought for the Day - Rainfall Update

First thought, I made an error about all those birds that got poisoned on Congress Avenue. My spell should have been great-tailed grackles, not common grackles. I sure hope nobody got confused by that error. I have made a correction to the original reflecting that change from Quiscalus quiscula to Quiscalus mexicanus. The latter species, those that probably got poisoned, is also the species, some of whom, stroll into the CB to eat dog chow.

Now that that setback to my Sun God training is behind me, the rainfall update is as follows: 9.38" + 0.59" = 9.97". Praise the Goddess, we are having a wet Polaris or Polar Bear.

Our big holiday, Imbolc, the Winter Weed Festival, is upcoming. This year, DY 1, the winter weeds are prospering due to all the rain. Plus, the many frosts have inhibited the tiny herbivores more than the winter weeds.

Th Druids have speculated somewhat upon the seeming paucity of native winter weeds in these parts. This paucity is reportedly not so pronounced as in the former eastern deciduous forest, but noteworthy, nonetheless, and touches upon the plant ecology of these parts in times of yore.