Thursday, 9:45 am: It started raining yesterday and has continued on and off through today. Due to my lack of dedication [and rain] my outside work has been postponed until the next dry day. It’s a day to crack open my CDs and DVDs and relax. I’ve already turned on my ham radio HF transceiver and I am listening while I type. I am expecting a new part for my antenna to arrive today via UPS. Nothing is broken; the part will just give me an additional amateur radio band to operate on.

Our dogs are also taking a day off. Actually every day, is a day off for them, except today they prefer to be inside dozing on any available soft horizontal space. I kind of like that idea myself. Nothing too complicated.

My wife is sorting out our leftover European currencies, mainly Euros and a few Swiss Francs. Euros don’t do us much good in northern Maine, so they just collect dust in our desk. She wants to take them to the bank and exchange them for US funds. After the bank takes out for their commission [locally called the discount rate] we actually lose a bit in the transaction. It’s not exactly high finance, so the loss is grudgingly bearable.

Obviously this has nothing much to do with weather. In the event I completely get off track, I better get refocused on to today’s weather:

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

Temperature: 56.8° [F.]

Barometer: 29.630 & steady

Humidity: 100%

Wind: N at 2 mph very light & variable

Visibility: < 2 miles below cloud base

Skies: 100% low overcast [intermittent rain]

Precipitation: .04 in. [rain]

Precipitation yesterday: .31 in. [rain]

Since midnight:

Low temperature: 56.7° [F.] at 9:26 am

High wind: 12 mph at 8:47 am