TO DO –

• Wake up.
• Check the radar reports.
• Pencil “cold – mostly sunny” into draft of morning weather report.
• Start the coffee.
• Put miniature potted cactus out on back porch, so it can get some sun.
• Breakfast.
• Rescue potted cactus from unexpected rain shower. Too much water can make them swell up and burst!
• Don heavy jacket, strap on galoshes and collect umbrella.
• Drive to TV station.
• Place dry galoshes and umbrella in locker.
• Call Giuseppe Garfagnini, from the Parks and Recreation office, about that segment on fun things to do in warm weather. Suggest changing to a cold weather activity.
• Give morning weather report – mostly cloudy, cold, small chance of rain.
• Enjoy sunny weather on drive to local park.
• Leave jacket in the car. It’s too warm for it.
• Text wife, ask her to put the cactus back out on the back porch.
• Roll up sleeves for segment with Giuseppe. Sweat through taping of segment.
• Run back to car to grab spare umbrella to ward off sudden cloudburst. Let Giuseppe use it to get back to his car. There’s one in the locker at work.
• Text wife, ask her to bring the cactus back in.
• Receive reply from wife.
• Remind her that the cactus cost twenty bucks, and you’d hate to see it wasted because of a little rain.
• Receive reply from wife.
• Remind her not to use that kind of language once the kids are home from school.
• Drive back to TV station.
• Lunch.
• Check weather radar.
• Give evening weather report – clear skies and cooling temperatures.
• Drive home.
• Receive phone call from wife, who says car battery died while picking kids up from school.
• Point out that you just replaced that thing.
• Say that yes, that doesn’t get the car started and you’ll be there soon.
• Check radar reports.
• Put cactus back out on the back porch, because some sun late in the evening is better than no sun at all.
• Drive to local elementary school.
• Spend fifteen minutes diagnosing problem with wife’s car.
• Conclude that the car battery is dead.
• Ignore “I told you so” look from wife by cleverly pointing out that the skies are clouding up and it looks like rain.
• Discover that Giuseppe still has your spare umbrella.
• Realize your usual umbrella and galoshes are still in the locker at work because you hadn’t needed them when you left.
• Enjoy unseasonal thunderstorm complete with torrential rainfall.
• Prepare to jump wife’s car in half inch of standing water.
• Remember that prayer is an important part of a long and fulfilling life.
• Jump start wife’s car.
• Drive home, wet and cold.
• Discover there is no warm dinner waiting for you because no one was there to cook it.
• Eat cold cut sandwiches in gloomy silence.
• See that clouds are breaking up!
• Step out onto back porch and enjoy glorious sunset.
• Bury miniature cactus.
• Go to bed – tomorrow is another day!

Any semblance to people living or dead is strictly coincidental. Any semblance to real events is credited entirely due to the nature of Indiana weather.