<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/>  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link="#003399" vlink="#660000"> <div class=Section1> Rumor has it that it is supposed to get warm here.  We’re still waiting.  Highs in the 60s this week, and rain showers.  I want to restain the deck, but have to get 2 days straight without rain..<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Speaking of rain showers, yesterday was very muggy early, and about noon or so I went outside and heard almost a constant drumming of thunder, like from all around us and way up high in the clouds.  It was never really loud, but with “<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:City> drops” of rain and weird wind I thought it was going to turn nasty.  (weird wind:  Imagine looking out the front door and the clouds are zipping fast to the north, then go look out the back door and the clouds are zipping to the south.)<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> About ten minutes later the weather service issued a tornado warning for about 12 miles NE of here – imagine a tornado in Redwood City… that sort of thing.  It was moving away from us – one good reason to live close to the foothills is that storms take a bit more distance to get organized into tornados.  But this was about the closest a tornado has been to us. And the cloud that produced it was nothing special, although it was big and grey and the low clouds in the distance were moving quickly, but overall it sure didn’t look like one of those clouds the stormchasers see an F3 emerge from.  Just another rainy, gray cloud.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> The whole afternoon there were tornados to the east of us, and tonight northeast of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Greeley</st1:place></st1:City> also.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> And tomorrow and Wednesday are supposed to be the really lousy weather.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Yeah, June is wet here, but we also expect some warmth as well.  Here’s how cool/damp it is:  A lot of lawns in the neighborhood have “fairy rings” – rings of mushrooms, like we live in Arcata.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Other than that, things are OK.  Linda had a cough for a couple of weeks that never got better or any worse.  We took her to the doctor and she has bronchitis AND an ear infection.  On drugs now (expensive drugs!) but I’ve only seen about a 50% improvement – we might go back there later in the week.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> It’s odd with Kevin in the <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Pomona</st1:place></st1:City> band and Linda on staff there this summer.  Fortunately their paths don’t overlap all that much.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Later<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Paul<o:p></o:p> </div> </body> </html>