There’s not much special about today’s forecast, but this little item on the Weather Underground website has made me think more than once. Wanting to try out this Firefox add-on I have called Clip-Notes I think, this gave me a chance to “clip” something from a website and post it to the blog. Back to what I clipped: I’ve had a long theory in which I have argued (no one really argues with me about it though) that I could blindly forecast the weather by simply saying “Today will be the same as yesterday.” Or it could be a future forecast, “Tomorrow will be the same as today.” I’m certain that I could be more accurate in my such weather forecast than any other weather guesser. I need to pay attention more and see if this Weather Underground snip under the forecast ever says something like “Today’s temperature will be radically higher than yesterday.” Of maybe they are just gathering data with a theory unlike my own…

For two years they’ve been saying our drought is going to be one of the worst ever. Well it was pretty bad, but I was always confident that the lake will come back and the drought will be over before most people even realize it. In fact, the news programs will be so excited about the tragedies and danger of some rain, they’ll skip right over it. By golly I see an article in the paper about a very quiet declaration of the end of the drought. The lake’s back up to 666′ or so, about a 20′ rise in the past several weeks. We hit a low of 643′ back in December which didn’t even reach the recent low point in 2000. Close, but no cigar. January hit us with a good spell of rain, and now again in March. We’re currently at double the average amount of rainfall for the year.

But I digress. The clip notes thing seems to work well, I’ll have to teach Lisa how to do it. She’s doing well, but darned ready for the baby to make his arrival. We were certain as blind predictions go that yesterday would be the day. April 1st (never mind that day, it’s both my sister’s and step-brother’s birthday), opening night of baseball with my favorite Cardinal’s on tv. I even started several projects in the yard and smoked some ribs on the smoker. Not enough to temp fate or call on Murphy’s Law.

It was enough, if you believe, to make the oven kick the bucket. Well it seems only the igniter or possibly some whatever feeds the gas to the igniter. Right as Lisa was going to make a nice looking blueberry coffee cake to go with the ribs. The stove-top works, but no oven ignition. I’m certain I could fix it – it’s either one $75 piece, or two. But then again, we could just buy a new oven. It’s ten years old, I’ve wanted a new oven, and I’m certain that any oven I could possibly buy is probably a higher quality than the builder provided me with the house.

So that reminds me, our friends Andy and Stephanie had their little girl, Meredith, on Friday evening about 8 PM. That’s our two friends both due on the same or almost the same day as Lisa (April 11th). Only Lisa remains pregnant. She has yet another doctor visit this morning – maybe there’s some progress. I hope so for Lisa’s sake.

Who knows what today will bring.