Monday, 3:10 pm: If I were any lazier I could be comatose, but luckily I haven’t seen my name in the obituary column in our newspaper, so I must be still alive. Now let’s see, I am trying to sort out where I left off in my last blog.

Not far from our house

Lo’ and behold, I got a letter, a few weeks ago, from the car rental agency at the Munich Airport saying they paid a speeding ticket for me and deducted it from my credit card. I have a badge of distinction now: I got ticketed for speeding on the A-9 German Autobahn. Wow, speeding on the Autobahn! They got me with photo radar in Sachsen-Anhalt, south of Berlin. I kept the letter from the Polizei. Being an old fart, of sorts, I suppose I am required to drive slower or at least near the shoulder of the road, in the event my Grecian Formula runs in my eyes.

As for the local weather, it has been very rainy since, well at least most of the summer. One 24 hour period last week we had over 1.5 inches of rain. Even today we had .04 inch which is nothing to what we have been getting. If it can stay reasonably dry through tomorrow I can mow our lawn.

For the moment, and with subdued enthusiasm, I need to take my daily siesta. I finished reading the Dubliners by James Joyce – what a snore, even if it is a classic. Now I know what drove my Irish ancestors to drink, and it probably didn't take much. I usually imagined my forbearers in the Emerald Isle playing concertinas and wearing buckle shoes and talking a lot like Barry Fitzgerald in Going My Way. Although I am partial to the Quiet Man with John Wayne. Yikes, I am stereotyping myself!  Blogging, reading and driving in one day have pushed the envelope of my endurance and interest. Ciao!

Current values from our wireless Davis Vantage-Pro weather station:

Temperature: 76.6^o [F.]

Barometer: 29.828 & steady

Humidity: 45%

Wind: SE at 10 mph light & variable

Visibility: > 3 miles

Skies: Scattered clouds

Precipitation: .04 inch rain

Since midnight:

Low temperature: 63.6^o [F.] at midnight

High wind: 16 mph at 2:27 pm