We’ll, it’s been an eventful day for only being 2pm.

Got up early (well, regular time for a work day, but it’s Saturday) and took the cats into the vet for the annual checkup. They just don’t like that, but they are all vaccinated up and so on.

Then took in the annual Arlington Height (IL) art fair. We’ve gone the last three or so years; it’s usually a good fair.

I dunno – maybe it’s just because we just got back from Santa Fe (where the whole town is somewhat like an art fair), but this year’s event as pretty much “so what?”

Sure, there were some things worth looking at, some good, some bad, some just plain butt ugly – but nothing that grabbed us like the in the past few years. Oh well, that’s how art fairs seem to run: hit or miss. Maybe we were just cranky today.

Came home and – since it was supposed to rain – I thought it would be a good idea to cut the lawn. Got the front and our slivers of a side done, but it was getting black as I began the back. Did the edging, and a couple of large cracks of thunder later, I thought it would be a good idea to head in.

Just as I turned the corner out the backyard – dump city! Just poured like someone turned on a faucet.

So, I still have the most of the backyard to do. Oh well, maybe tomorrow. And we do need the rain.

Update: 5:10: After about 45 minutes of torrential rain, the sun came out and there’s not a cloud in the sky. A nice breeze is even keeping climbing humidity at bay. Gotta love (why??) the vague structre of Chicago weather.