Rockport ended last year way ahead of average in rainfall and started the new one the same way. The driveway to my little cottage has transmogrified into a swamp which my little car was no match for. It was reminiscent of the car stuck in the mud scene from My Cousin Vinny. (Though I don’t do Marissa Tomei’s character’s accent nearly as well as she does. Funny movie by the way!)

Thankfully, my new neighbors were nice enough to push me out of the mud. After which I imagine they went home for a good laugh while drinking sweet tea to cool off. As my intuitive friend Jeff said, “It would figure that a desert girl would get stuck in the mud.”