Greetings From Waterlogged Connecticut

We are now on our ... hell, I don't even remember, so let's call it our nth day of rain here. We've had over a foot of rain in the past week, this much I know. Janice and I are safe, since we're at or around 200 feet above sea-level, here in Manchester.

I thought I'd have a chance to try out the new golf clubs at some point, but the starter set we bought did not include a snorkel, mask and fins.

A while back, I mentioned an afternoon Janice and I spent at Harbor Park, in Middletown on the Connecticut River, and lunch with Frank (yours truly's best male friend ... Janice is always my best friend, of course). In the Hartford Courant's web site (I don't subscribe when I can get it online) there was a photo of Harbor Park taken on Tuesday. See below. The waterline as shown in the picture, is approximately 10 feet above where it normally would be. The area to the right of the restaurant is the lower deck. Where boaters dock is to the right of the lower deck, and is deeply submerged in this picture. Where the people are standing is at the top of a grassy area, and I don't think they are going to swim out to the gazebo.

All in all, I feel like I'm in Ray Bradbury's "All Summer In A Day", a short story in which he describes the lives of children in a school on Venus, where it rains for seven years and then the sun comes out for one day.

Last but not least ... GO SALUKIS ... in honor of their beating IHSA 2A 6th-ranked Cumberland last week, and earning a spot in the field of 32 for the 2005 football playoffs! I'll be sending RC an email urging him to spark a county-wide surge of support in their post-season efforts. (as an aside - did RC publish my email-to-the-editor after the "Oil Field Trophy" comments he made? LOL)