It is now absolutely pouring and I love it.  The water is cascading down off the awnings on the terrace and washing all the grime off the plants.  It's the first good rain since we've been here.  The air had gotten so heavy and foul that my eyes were exhausted and red by afternoon.  This will give it a good cleaning.  Unlike the air in my room right now.  I made the mistake a making cauliflower along with the roast this afternoon.  GP is on his computer researching intestinal gas.  After a particularly bad episode he quoted Dante.  "Tromba di culo, sanita di corpo." Translated as "Trumpet of the bottom, healthy body."  That Dante.  And I though he was so boring and glum.  xxoo me