wet

Had a very good time at Vinophiles last night. Chatting and tasting new things with good people. The rain started minutes after we arrived and Perri and Walter's house, with quite a lot of lightning & thunder. Lights flickered. Candles kept the house from going dark. The storm seemed to energize the entire evening in spirits as well.

It is still raining this morning, though not with last night's intensity. I still need to walk through the house and finish re-setting all of the clocks and timers.

It's been a crazy, stressful week of loss, discomfort, and family concerns. We are without use of our kitchen sink and dishwasher until Monday at the earliest. That's when a plumber is supposed to replace a section of the large old cast iron pipe that has rusted through, leaving our crawlspace wet, nasty, stinky, and propagating vermin.

Sunday, we need to travel to visit MonsterMustDie's mother to check on how she's managing. Family and friends have phoned and emailed him about her condition deteriorating mentally. Seems her memory is completely shot now and it is up to his cousin, her neice, and her friends to come in and clean out her fridge, get her to pay bills, etc. Medications are piled up in her cabinet without being taken. I don't know what the condition of the house is like.