Barometric changes

With one loud clap of thunder at 12:36 on Sunday October 31, the skies opened and the rainy season in Mazabuka officially began. Moments earlier, I had been out in the garden with the sun shining; it looked like it was going to be yet another beautiful day. The storm whipped up a fair bit of wind, which in turn sent some of the mangoes to clatter loudly onto the metal roof. The rains continued on and off and with differing intensity for the rest of the afternoon and into the evening. The cool breeze prompted me to put a living room chair out in the covered porch to read, which was lovely.

Though I'm happy to see the rains since the land and the plants look so dry, I am however alarmed to find that my right knee now appears to function as a barometer. I woke up yesterday morning with a slight ache in my knee which grew to be quite uncomfortable by noon. Perhaps I shouldn't jump to conclusions too quickly, but since I haven't done anything injurious to my knee recently, this strange ache does seem to suggest that I've acquired an “old person trait”. Life marches on.