It rains hard, and I’m glad for it.  There are a few caveats to that.  I imagine our practice will be rained out again today.  And I have an aging automobile, something over 14 years old, a car of which I have a certain amount of affection (try as we might not to anthropomorphize our things).  It has low mileage (my office is across the back yard, attached to the garage), it runs great (I take it to the mechanic, he tells me how clean and solid it is), it has good sight lines (I’ve driven a lot of potential new cars in the last few years and the back windshields get smaller and smaller, the posts get thicker and thicker so you can’t see what’s going on around you), and it’s getting to the point where the car is so old it’s almost a classic.  The boys will be able to drive it in a couple of years if I still have it.  There is one thing, though.  It has a moon roof.  I don’t use the moon roof much, but because it has a moon roof, when it rains, the rain naturally gets in through the cracks, but the car is well enough designed that there are small holes to handle the run-off.  Those holes get plugged every few years.  But I don’t know when they’re plugged until it rains.  And when they’re plugged, the rain overflows in the moon roof track and drips into the interior of the car.  I find it when I go to drive it in the morning.  Deep sigh. 

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