Gray growing weather

Such a strange day. Only late March, and it felt muggy. The vegetation is thriving upon it, you can almost watch the thirsty tendrils twining about anything that doesn't move...
My mother and I exchanged a few words with someone about to become a former neighbor, whom we hadn't met in the four years she said they'd lived around the corner. She told us they were moving back to Southern California, to the Redondo Beach area, that this last winter had been particularly hard, and they couldn' t take the rain any more. Southern California imprinted memories of constant sunshine drove them away. I do remember the first couple of winters and springs being a shock to us NW Ohio transplants, and even now, a particularly wet and chilly winter and spring can throw me, but the experts say our region's going to dry up and blow away in the next several decades, so we'd best appreciate this gloomy gray moistness while it still occurs. Celebrate the moss and lichen that will cover everything that remains stationary.
Running hills was hard, doing weights was hard, everything seemed extra heavy. I had to walk most of the way home, but it was pleasant at a slower pace.
Talked to our beloved son. I hope to go climbing up at Index with him next week.
Interesting to see Russ Feingold on The Daily Show. He appears to be a reasonable straight-shooting guy. He just sounded fed up with our craven bunch of looting pillaging barbarian leaders. (My words, of course!) Let's just install him right now as POTUS, eh? With Molly Ivins in his cabinet, and... How do they go about this in other places, bloodless coups?