7.19.02 – Scattered T-Storms from the northwest at 9 mph

i don’t think that i can go back to recap all that’s happened in the past two months – i can only go forward. more free time these days, so i’m going to try to get the writing muscle back in shape. zeke is surly about having to share the computer chair with me; i’ve spent so little time in front of the computer lately that he thinks it’s his chair. he’s grooming himself now, each of us squeezed onto and spilling off the chair in a stubborn, uncomfortable position. he has this endearing habit of accidentally grooming me sometimes – he’ll be licking away at a paw, and then move over to my leg, and back to his paw, and never seem to notice that he’s been licking me clean along with himself.

Twelfth Night is playing tonight – it’s unfortunate that my parents picked this evening to see the show since thunderstorms and rain are predicted for the Boise area from 5 until 11pm tonight. late summer in Idaho – whose weather patterns i’d always been fond of before i started doing outdoor theatre – has arrived and made the past few shows fairly chaotic. it goes like this – the days dawn clear and sunny and hot – 110 last week – and as the day goes on the sun bakes the moisture out of the ground, and it piles up as great thunderclouds on the horizon, which spread and bloom like mushroom clouds over the sky until it blots out the late afternoon sun, cooling what would have been the hottest part of the day. these clouds, for reasons i don’t understand, are full of friction, and the rumble of thunder is a common sound. sometimes the humidity breaks with a rainstorm, other times the clouds break up and leave around sunset, leaving a warm summer sky filled with stars. it’s hard not to like this weather. unless you do outdoor theatre. last week, three of Much Ado‘s four performances were beset by 60 mph “fury of the gods” winds that sent set pieces flying, pouring rain that made the deck slippery like an ice-rink, lightening strikes all around the theatre. oops – gotta go to work early today – there’s a flash flood warning in effect for this afternoon’s storm. more later.