Sunday 8:55 am: We’ve had lots of rain the past few days. On Friday we had 1.2 inches, and Saturday .1 inch, for a storm total of 1.3 inches [ca. 33 mm]. Even our avid local sportsmen were nowhere to be seen on Friday. We were also nowhere to be seen; staying inside looked to be our best choice, and our driest option too. We also fired up our woodstove on Friday. Our home is nice and warm now.

During the recent heavy rainfall I dragged out [again] my collection of Truly Bad Cinema DVDs. My choices this time were decidedly dreadful; The Brainiac [Spain -1961] and Gammera the Invincible [Japan -1965], the latter starring Brian Donlevy, which I imagine, if he were still alive, would opt to forget. Such a sad swan song for his long acting career. Admittedly I like the fake special effects and miniatures this Japanese studio goes all out to create on a next-to-nothing budget. I think the same guy who played Godzilla also played Gammera, they just swapped ridiculous costumes. Naturally Tokyo gets leveled and set ablaze when Gammera gets seriously annoyed with them.

Later today we’ll be driving over to New Brunswick for a quiet dinner at our local German restaurant. My wife is German after all, so we keep those connections alive and well. Besides I like schnitzel too. That’s it for today from the northern front; we’re digging in for the winter and dusting off our snowshoes . . . Vorwärts, if you get the subtext!

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

Temperature: 42° [F.]

Barometer: 29.794 & steady

Humidity: 100%

Wind: Calm

Visibility: > 3 miles under cloud base

Skies: ca. 90% overcast & patchy fog

Precipitation: None - light ground frost

Since midnight:

Low temperature: 33.7° [F.] at 6:34 am

High wind: 3 mph at 12:58 am