It’s January 16th.  We have all the windows open, and have had many of the doors open on and off throughout the day.  It’s about 7pm – the sun went down nearly 2 hours ago.  It is 72 degrees.

I don’t know how long it will last, but it sure is nice while it’s here.  On the other hand, we could really use a lot more rain – but there will be plenty of time for that; it’s only January, after all.

Here’s our Kitchen Door spider:

From 2011 Indian Summer

She’s been there for months, now. Seemed to take a little holiday when it got really rainy. I suspect she went off somewhere to lay a batch of eggs. We let her stay there in the upper left corner of the doorway – though she tried to go all the way across, once. Had to break the right side of the web off – with apologies. She has not tried to expand that way again.

	The Santa Anas are blowing, and I think it makes Ellyn restless. She woke up at 3am the other day and stayed up for a few hours. I should probably send her off on a road trip to the desert. Maybe next weekend we’ll go together; we’ll see what the weather does.
From 2011 Indian Summer