Rainy Days

It's raining here this morning, an unusual circumstance. We're in the third year of a drought, so it's hard to complain about any rain, but it's also cold.
I live in a house that's over a hundred years old, and the central heating system is a rather large fireplace, that's positioned roughly in the middle of the house. It works really well for heating, the problem is that you have to feed it, and I don't have enough wood for the winter yet, so I really need to get about gathering some.
I lit a fire this morning, the first of the season, not the first cold snap, but the first that made me, and the house, feel cold. My computer is in the main room of the house, and I'm sitting here watching the fire now, I'm wearing a wool sweater and I have a really hot cup of coffee, but my feet are still cold, from my ailments and the fact that I have been out in the cold wet fall morning, tending my animals.
I'm reminded of a song from my favorite musical group, Rehab. The song is called "Rainy Days" and the line from the song is " Rainy days are good for sleeping, when it's gray and cold, They got a way to make you feel like your getting old","Your memories of being worry free are often sold, youth are so bold, you wish'd you still feel like that"   I guess that, that's the way I feel this morning. Sitting here in front of the warm fire, surrounded by my cats, wishing the day would just leave me alone so I could just sit here in my wheel chair, enjoy my coffee, my fire, and my cats.
But I have to do battle with the bureaucracy in about a half hour, and I'm afraid that the other pressing matters of the day will have to be confronted sooner or later, so.
But they are right, it does have a way of making you feel old.
here's the youtube link for "Rainy Days"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwToJ0b0FoI