Rabbit rabbit. It's going to be low to mid seventies today, the rest of the week will turn out a little more reasonable. So heatwise this summer is not at all bad, unlike in forsaken hellholes like Sacramento and Texas. Where people without airconditioning die. Which keeps the rents down. "Boy, you want to live among all the Christians in the badlands? Go right ahead, and say your prayers." In Texas it will hit low nineties today, in Placerville (which is just chuck-full of slope-browed rightwing rear-ends) it's going to be mid to high nineties, and in Sacramento (California's very own gateway to hell) the temperature likely will cross one hundred.
Keep praying, boys. We shall be gamboling naked and worshipping idols.
As well as smoking tonnes of pot and protesting.
We're celebrating our mildness.
Despite the Autumn Festival theme in the illustration, the actual day will be in early October this year. But in SF we're celebrating at the end of September. The seal-script above has two words, the second of which is 秋 ('
chau') meaning 'Autumn'. Note that the variant above shows a sun over the fire, suggesting the seasonal aspect. The usual variant has the grain radical (秋), with fire (火) on the right. But actually, the sun (日) is a remnant of the older representation of a cricket, as attested by jiandu 簡牘 ('
gaan duk') script (the writing on strips of bamboo during the Warring States period).
The earliest character meaning 'Autumn' was just the cricket.
Cute little fellow, isn't he?
Rabbit rabbit.
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