Rudi and I are working from home today to monitor the flooding (keep your fingers crossed, but the worst *might* be past us). In the meantime, I offer you a round dozen songs from random play on the iTunes on my home machine:

1. “Too Bad about Your Girl” — The Donnas
2. “Bobby Lee” — Kris Delmhorst (Kris always seems to appear on my random play lists)
3. “Venus” — The Chris Stamey Experience
4. “Lechón, Lechón, Lechón” — Victor Manuelle
5. “So Young” — The Corrs
6. “Mrs. McGrath” — Bruce Springsteen
7. “Drunk Lullaby” — Redbird
8. “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm” — Dean Martin
9. “Chelsea Morning” — Judy Collins (I like Judy, but this song is so Joni for me that it just seems wrong)
10. “Love in the Lies” — Amos Lee
11. “Dink’s Song” — Roger McGuinn
12. “The Sun Doesn’t Like You” — Norah Jones

Please feel free to play along in the comments.

It’s been raining for what seems like 40 days and nights…

Okay, maybe it’s just been most of the last five days.

But eventually after a steady rain…

no matter how good it is for my garden…

no matter how nice it is to have the pollen washed away…

no matter how wonderful it will be to have a drought-free summer…

eventually…

the ground saturates…

and the rain has nowhere to go…

but inside the Burrow.