Will this rain ever STOP?
The DC area is into a record-breaking streak of rainy days.
Today was the 15th consecutive day with measurable miserable rain, and the forecast sucks for the next few days, possibly even next week.
People are starting to lose it, including me.
I got an extra-sized helping of (four-letter word beginning with r and ending with ain) this afternoon.
First, the freezer on our refrigerator is acting up, for the first time in 8 years. All the food in it is soft. For safety's sake we decide to toss the contents, 90% of which were old and should have been tossed ages ago. I give it a good cleaning, adjust the controls and it seems to be working. So I go to Trader Joe's to pick up a few groceries. When the cashier finishes ringing everything up, I find I'd left my wallet at home. No problem; they put my bags in their refrigerator until I came back with my wallet.
I get in my car to head home, and naturally the car won't start. Wouldn't make any kind of sound. I call my daughter at home to ask her for the AAA number (which was in the wallet) and ask her to bring me the wallet. Call AAA.
Daughter, who is under the weather with a splitting headache, arrives with the wallet and says she'd wait in her car for AAA while I pay for the food.
As I'm trying to pay, I see the AAA battery van drive past my car and keep going. My debit card fails to work on the first swipe, so I have to do it again. When I race out to my daughter's car with the groceries, I see the AAA van circling around the parking lot heading toward one of the exits. I chase it around the lot in the pouring rain like an idiot, frantically waving an empty grocery tote to catch his attention.
Finally flag him down, but get completely soaked, because in my extreme brilliance, I'd left a better winter jacket at my other daughter's home in Pittsburgh a few days earlier, thinking I wouldn't need it because it was SPRING tra-la and everything would be WARM.
The AAA guy says he'd been calling my cell phone, but I'd turned off the ringer sound on the bus ride back from Pittsburgh and forgot to turn it back on.
He checks out everything, the battery seems okay. He says it was probably the starter and calls for a tow truck. I tell my daughter to take the groceries home. Tow truck arrives. I help him push the car out of its parking spot toward the tow truck, getting more soaked. Luckily the car repair place we go to is less than 3 miles away so I don't have to pay for towing. My daughter picks me up at Cho's Auto. Cho says he'll call me tomorrow with an estimate.
But the fun is not yet over.
We get home, my daughter decides to take a shower because I'm too tired to take one. I'm soaked to the skin, get changed, and am drinking hot tea when I hear an ear-splitting shriek.
There are ANTS, zillions of them, in the bathroom. My daughters are adults but they still freak out about spiders, insects, ants, etc. Yes, there indeed are many ants, and they seem focused on some very small thing on the floor next to the tub, maybe a piece of food someone accidentally dropped. I grab tissue to pick up whatever-it-is (along with half a zillion ants) and drop it in the toilet, try to flush and remember someone telling me that the little chain in the tank has slipped off the flapper. I go to reattach it, to find the flapper part that it is supposed to attach to is missing. I pull the flapper up by hand to flush. Now my sweatshirt - the one I put on after taking off my jacket and the wet shirt under it - is wet.
I go looking for the trusty Terro ant traps downstairs, realize the cat litter needs changing and tomorrow is trash day, start scooping out clumps (into a plastic Washington Post bag, how very appropriate!) ... taking out the rest of the trash, emptying wastebaskets ... my hands are quite dirty and of course this is precisely when my husband phones to say he's taking the bus home from the Metro. Now I have to sanitize the phone too.
And so another rainy day drags to its conclusion.
I swear I WILL stay under the covers tomorrow.
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88° high here, took a nice walk. If it makes you feel better, I almost got a sunburn. 
We'll just bill the charges to taterguy.
here in California there probably will not be any more rain until the fall. That's such a long time!!
So I'm jealous of the rain you're getting-- wish you could send some our way.
But I can imagine it might get a bit dismal after awhile.
Hang in there!!
I've been known to have shit days just as you've had, you're not alone! When it rains it pours, doesn't it?
Tomorrow will be a better day, well except for the rain. We're getting it here, too. I've forgotten what the sun looks like.
Hang in there! 
Just traveled south, through MoCo and PG to Calvert, with no signs of it. Forecast some for Sunday and Monday!
Used to be a newspaper reporter a long, long time ago.
I'm about to re-tackle the toilet, armed with a new flapper from Home Depot.
I hope today is better!
Could have spent the day in GD-P
We saw this thing in the sky today. It might have been the sun.
Or perhaps a drone with a floodlight.
I got so excited I went out and planted six tomato plants.
Then I saw the Capital Weather Gang's forecast. Big cold front coming through.
Possible patchy frost on Monday morning.
