Stormy October Day Kinda Open Thread-ish

 

            Ralph would like you to know that the famous rainy season has begun. It’s raining in the Great Forest, hard. The water is falling on Milltown, and on Port Gardner Bay. The whole Cascade and Olympic Ranges are full of rain and dark clouds. The wind is puffing around a little too.
            The sky is dark. It’s only mid afternoon and it looks like time to close the curtains, if you have curtains and all, and turn on the lights, assuming that you live in a house.
            “In the Home Clearing we build up the fire. Since we don’t read books, the light of the fire is all we need. It’s really pretty cozy. Nothing makes ya feel like staying near the cave and the fire like a super rainy dark day,” he says, smiling eyes flashing in the flicker light of the flames.
            “We like to keep the fire hot during these wet days. When Bob and Berry, and Blue get done running around and getting soaked, they can warm up by the fire.
            “My old Birdie does love the rainstorms. I betcha that right now she is up there drifting just below the clouds, looking like a great black elemental spirit! Nothing land born holds her down.
            “Soon there will be snow. But as you know snow doesn’t pile up too high here. Outside the Clearing it will be a different story!
            “That’s pretty much it, Ramona and I, and son and daughter, hope that you enjoy the storm too. In a way, I wish those English reporters had come today! They would have gotten a look at the real wildness of the west, huh?
            “We raise our cups to you! Take er easy!”
 
Love, Ralph & Ramona

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