OK, Who Did the Rain Dance????

Here is a picture of Billy all suited up and ready for a bike commute in Toulouse on June 14, 2010! You can see how the bike folds up and can be carried with one hand and this includes fenders and a rack. He is really happy that he got fenders because they have been so useful!

My plan were to go help my friend in her garden but rain cancels that. Toulousians aren't use to just going out and doing whatever it was you had planned come rain or shine. They are a more "lets wait until it stops" kind of mentality.

So I decided to join them and go out to see a cheap movie at Noon. Today the local version of the "Crest" was showing the old Clarke Gable & Claudette Cobert movie directed by Frank Capra originally titled, "Anything Can Happen" but titled for the French as Miami/New York. Not sure why but I do know that some titles just do not translate. For instance the new movie "Date Night" is titled "Crazy Night" here.
They showed the movie in English with French subtitles so I got to study French too. It was charming and entertaining, they were both very good actors. If you haven't seen this movie I recommend it and much to my surprise it had a remote Toulouse connection! The entire song, "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze"is sung as part of one scene, all three verses! I'm sure Jules Leotard was pleased ;-)

Just looked out the window, still raining, which makes me think that if the climate scientists really want to frighten people they should emphasis just how dreary day after day of light rain can be.

The cataclysmic changes are too exciting! But the steady gray sky? That really ought to get people thinking!