Closer to the end of summer...

It was bound to happen (I like the French for this: "ça devait arrivé.) Late last week, gray cold weather returned, and yesterday we got rain. Today was mostly clear (fortunately for the Fremont Octoberfest) but serious rain returned tonight.

No pictures, unless I add this one, of the three buildings just below here, so heavily wrapped in plastic that they resemble tents put up for some colossal event. (This picture is from last weekend - now you see nothing but yards and yards of white.)


Under the plastic each building is having a completely new outer layer applied. Reason is the same old thing - dryvit, an artificial stucco. See this for some of the gory details.

My building is ALSO faced with dryvit, but so far (another great French expression here - "porvu que ça dure" - meaning, roughly, "let's hope we keep dodging this bullet,") we've escaped a major resurfacing. (We did have a falling tree that wiped out a couple of balconies, but that is another story.)

For something completely different, if you're an archaeology fancier, check out this blog.

And did you know there is a Facebook group called, "I have more foreign policy experience than Sarah Palin"?