For years I worked in the restaurant world. We did not have air conditioning in most places.

While Monday's rain was not nearly enough, it was a welcome relief.

We have not had measurable rain in more than a month.

I was all set to complain about the heat and humidity when I heard on NPR this morning about the heat wave in western Europe.

Over the past week we've had a series of beautiful days.

It doesn't need to be raining here on the Vineyard for the traffic to get downright laughable.

Wouldn’t it be fun if every couple of nights we could get a nice soaking rain like last Monday?

The beginning of the week favored us with a couple of fabulous weather days.

That was some rain on Monday morning. I was so happy.

As I write this on Tuesday evening, I am ever hopeful that we actually get the rain predicted.