Saturday, Aug. 5

Saturday Aug. 5

It is unusually cool
for August this morning,
currently 65f.
I am sitting on my patio
sipping coffee enjoying the
cool morning air and the quiet
of the neighborhood.
Rain has fallen
and the sidewalks are wet.
Random leftover rain
from the two
decks above filter down
and lands on the outer edge
of my patio in slower
and slower drips.
It’s a grey day.
I see only the occasional
pedestrian through a
gap in the trees by Shillaelagh Blvd.,
exercise walkers.
Even the birds are quiet
this morning, except for those
seven noisy geese.
A small airplane
just flew overhead, its engine working
hard on its climb from the
Millard airport heading
south and east.
At 10 am, though the emergency
siren across the way on a nearby hilltop
screams in preparedness
for severe weather,
or worse.
It’s good to have that siren
nearby and it has warned
of severe weather several times
this summer. I read this week
that North Korea now has
ballistic missiles that
could reach Papillion, Ne.
Our President is on an
extended golf vacation
in New Jersey. I think
those missiles can reach
New Jersey, too.
These are unsettling times.