Topix Underground

It's dreary and rainy here. There had been some  kind of drought that everyone was talking about but last night it looks like we got almost an inch of rain...whatever that means. Winter's coming, but not for a couple months. Right now it's like leaf-color, pumpkin-buying, apple orchard kind of season and we live in the epicentre of where the day trippers come to spend a magical afternoon in the countryside. The more affluent and vulgar among them will like it so much that they will figure out a way to borrow a million bucks to have an acre of trees bulldozed and replaced with a trashy McMansion, with the optional lanai, recycled plastic gazebo, playscape and lease BMW SUV for her and then send their ill-behaved, entitled, little loud-mouthed brats to school with our kids. Once again I feel like fleeing my homeland - a peculiar twist on the whole concept of 'white flight'.