Horse blanket days

The skies spread over us like cold wet blankets. We are due to get soaked very soon. Beloved offspring came by to say hello, and to gather a few vegetables for dinner; there were rescued peppers, huge green tomatoes, plenty of taters, and a handful of ripe small tomatoes. We're hunkering down for a bleak stretch of weather.
Pretty well along in Roberto Bolano's The Savage Detectives; it captures a sense of wildness from what must have been a heady time for young writers in Mexico.