bad weather, bad quills

[hatam_soferet]

Damp weather makes quills go all bendy and silly; weather.com says it's 90% humidity out, which doesn't surprise me given that it's raining buckets, and my humidity meter says it's 68% in here. Ergo, the three quills I have for Torah writing are all misbehaving horribly, wobbling around feebly instead of being nice and firm and springy. I have a can of sand heating in the oven; perhaps that'll perk them up a bit, even if only temporarily. Still, I am officially Not In A Very Good Mood.

Second day of Pesach we stopped asking the Holy One for rain, and started asking for dew and blessings, cos we don't want rain in the summer. Come on - who forgot? Who hasn't changed their liturgical habits? All this rain is your fault!