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WHETHER PREDICTION

If you want to predict the weather in Southern California—whether it is going to rain or not—you should know that we got our windows cleaned today.

It is a guaranteed rainy day sometime within a week.

On some past occasions, it has happened within a day or two.

Here in the desert, rain is not just rain. It is rain and dust melded together.

I wouldn't say that it rains mud exactly, but close.

So a washed window is only clean for a short time.

The other dependable factor is the prevalence of flies and other attractions that bring an Airedale's nose to the glass. Spit. Snot.

You have to clean them sometime. Otherwise all the rain/mud and dog spit/snot would accumulate so that we could not see out.

And we have a lot of glass. 7 sliders on the east and south sides. A lot of mirrors inside. They came with the house, the mirrors. But we like them.

Then some normal windows on each room on the north and west. The placement of windows that should be on all homes.

In addition to that, we have a sun room. Yup. In the desert. Sun. With a glass roof.

And a skylight in the living room. Two big lucite bubbles. 6x6 feet, each?

We don't always do the skylight as it is scratchable and is not usually dirty dirty. Just dusty. Somehow it seems to repel the kind of mess that gets on the other glass. For one thing, the Airedale's nose doesn't get that high. Usually.

Three guys come to do the work. It takes them about an hour and a half. Maybe an hour if they aren't talking on their cell phones to their girl friends or whoever.

This being the desert, it doesn't cost that much. Well, considering.

Considering our distaste for dirty windows.

An extravagance? Sure.

But otherwise it ain't going to get done.

I don't do windows!

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