Rainy Day

We don't get many of them in Albuquerque. In Florida there was a horrendous downpour nearly every day from April until October, and all-day rains every now and then. In Massachusetts, rainy days were commonplace. After nearly two months in Albuquerque, today we had our first rainy day.

About 10:00 this morning Carmen asked me if we could turn on the air conditioning. I looked at the thermostat. The inside temperature was 74 degrees, but the humidity! It was over 50 percent!

It's funny how we can adjust so quickly to a new environment. Especially in Florida, and to a lesser degree in Boston, 74 degrees and 50 percent humidity would have been extraordinarily pleasant days. But here, when the humidity spikes over 25 percent, we notice- and are uncomfortable.

There is standing water on the street and on the back patio. We've never seen that before. When it rains here, or the irrigation system turns on, as soon as it stops you can watch the ground dry. Not today. It's a rainy day in Albuquerque.