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This will ruin my plans for the weekend

It doesn’t look good for my outdoor weekend plans. I was planning on spending most of Saturday and Sunday outside taking out tree stumps, killing some weeds, mowing, weedeating, and generally cleaning shop. And Katie is going to spend the weekend horseshowing.

A front will move across the area late Saturday and Sunday, bringing thunderstorms and possibly large hail and strong gusty winds, according to the National Weather Service.

Is the hail really necessary? And this, too:

A stormy wake-up call is predicted for Saturday morning, with a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. It will be mostly cloudy during the day with a high near 87. Wind gusts may be as high as 20 mph.

But doesn’t a forty percent chance of rain mean it’s still more likely than not that it won’t rain? I never can figure these things out. If it’s more than 20% chance of rain, people expect rain. It must be fun being a meteorologist.

Seriously, enough with the spiders already

Even though I’ve got a nice fire going inside, I’m sitting here on my front porch in the chilly, rainy evening, enjoying the weather and goofing around on the internet.

And twice now I’ve had a spider (one was at least an inch and a half long) join me in surfing the intertubes.

And I do not appreciate it.

Question for you weather geeks

Is it possible that I, using the powerful force of Murphy and his set of laws, might be creating weather patterns?

Am I ever going to get to paint the rest of my fence? Must it always rain on the weekends?

At least I guess I’ll get some work done on the new bedroom upstairs.