Rainy-day traveling on hodgepodge highway

A home-grown tomato sandwich is a celebration of summer. All you need is a slice of juicy tomato big enough to cover a piece of white bread, a slathering of Duke’s mayonnaise and sprinkles of salt and pepper. And if you like BLTs, by all means, add bacon and lettuce. Photo by Dink NeSmith.
A home-grown tomato sandwich is a celebration of summer. All you need is a slice of juicy tomato big enough to cover a piece of white bread, a slathering of Duke’s mayonnaise and sprinkles of salt and pepper. And if you like BLTs, by all means, add bacon and lettuce. Photo by Dink NeSmith.

Here I sit.

For the last two hours, my brain has been idling in neutral. There’s something about rain on a tin roof. Inducing laziness, I guess.

And then, I put on my thinking cap, shifting my gray matt…