Not everybody can experience the luxury of enjoying cold, rainy weather. It has only been relatively recently that anybody could enjoy it. It used to be a time of hardship. The bounty of the growing season had to be harvested and stored, and hopefully it would last the winter. Firewood had to be stacked and kept dry... People huddled around fires as everything turned to mud or froze.
Even today, there are many who are stuck out in the cold, or who lead the type of subsistence lifestyle that leaves them vulnerable to seasonal changes. Then there are those of us who know that we can go home to a warm house and a stocked refrigerator any time we want to. I will make no apologies for this, but I recognize the fact that the kind of lifestyle I lead is only a dream for a large percentage of the human race; a dream that it would be impossible for everybody to share because the earth could not sustain us all at this level. I do not take this for granted, or at least I try not to.
Once a person gets a taste of the easy life, it's too hard to imagine living without it, so instead I just enjoyed the first real rain we've had this season. The air was heavy with the smells of woodsmoke and wet asphalt. The rain was heavy at times, turning the dust on my seldom-washed car to rivulets of mud. Hopefully we'll get a decent rainy season for a change. The reservoirs need it. We'd better go get the weather stripping on the van fixed though.

cds I listened to while getting wet: Blue Murder "No One Stands Alone", Kolinda "6", Vintersorg "Visions From the Spiral Generator", and Orphaned Land "Sahara"