Enough...

Ok...even I am getting tired of our current weather pattern. I keep forgetting it is nearly summer. Our long days are being wasted on stuff you can only do if it's raining instead of stuff that is good to do when it is dry. Very annoying, to say the least. I'm a Washingtonian and I normally love the rain, but this is just too much. I wanted to be way more productive this summer. I need to grade the dog's yard with a bobcat and need dry weather to accomplish that. I need to take things to the dump and want dry weather to do that. I want to sell and give away things on Craig's list and want dry weather for that. I don't care if it's cloudy, but does it really need to rain this much? Is this the fault of the volcanoes that spewed this past year? Is it just natural because we live in a rainforest area? Will we be regretting complaining once it does ever get warm because it will get way too hot?
These are the questions that have no answers.
Or answers I might not want to hear. Or answers that really don't matter. All I know is that I am ready for some sunny weather with some blue skies that last more than a day.

Not like this.

Like this.

The weather needs to change NOW!

This is one of last year's downpours, but they all look about the same.



I am officially sick of the weather and I seldom get sick of the cloudy, rainy weather that makes up a good portion of our weather patterns here in the great Northwest. This year, however, it is over the top. I am so sick of the wetness. I have so much to do that involves five or six dry days in a row. I can't mow my lawn. I can't dig in my flower beds. I can't put the dirt and plants back that I dug out of my flower bed. I can't finish the gravel. I can't get the paint out of the garage, mix it with kitty litter, and leave it to dry so I can throw it away. I can't get the junk out of the garage and put it on Craig's list or take it to the dump. I can't finish moving things around in my kitchen,, because that involved leaving some cabinets sitting outside for more than a minute.
So many things that I CAN'T do. It's time to look for more things that I can do, but it's difficult to motivate myself when the things I want to do hinge on the things I can't do. I am going to try and get myself into a sewing mood. I have tons of things that need to be finished, or mended, or made. I just haven't felt the creative bug. I need to go in and get started in there. I am going to force myself. I know once I start it will give me the sewing bug.
I will post pictures of the things I do. That will be my motivation to get things done.
So there you have it. Once I get really, really involved in the sewing projects and don't want to be torn away from them, the weather will change. Then I will have to force myself to stop sewing and go do outdoor stuff. As it is, I think I need to learn to drop everything the minute I see it stop raining and run outside and see what I can do in the half-dry mode for the twelve nano-seconds that it is not dropping things from the sky. Right now I need to go jump in the shower. And not the one that is about to pelt us from the sky. It's looking dark and ugly, so I'm sure by the time I am done getting ready for work it will be a downpour, forcing me to ride the shuttle instead of walking in to work from the parking lot. Dang weather!

NOW

I have decided to do the June daily blogging.
The theme for June is "now".
Since that is the theme, I decided to write my blog now. Right now.
I have nothing to say, really. I am watching hoarding. I am working on my cafe and farms. I am hoping against hope that tomorrow will be a nice day. By nice, I mean dry and warm. I need my yard to dry out. I need to go buy my straw bales and get my pumpkins, squash and zucchini planted. I need to mow. I need to build a few things. I need to paint a lot of things. I need to get rid of a lot of things. I want to do all of these things NOW. But I have to keep waiting on the weather. It's extremely annoying. EXTREMELY. For this Washington girl, who loves the rain, that is saying a lot. Tonight when I left work I saw sky among the clouds. Going to go to bed pretty soon and wish upon a star that tomorrow when I get up I will still see sky among the clouds.
Praying for sun. Need to learn the sun dance. Is there one?

Singing in the Rain

It's not raining right now. I wish it was raining because at least when it's raining it's not so cold. Cold wouldn't normally be that much of a problem, but I don't have central heat anymore. I have those little oil filled radiators and one convection version. This is ok, but because it was warm I had them all on low. We came home to a house less than toasty. We cranked them all up and now it's getting toasty, but it's also warming up outside, so maybe it will rain some more. I like the rain. I want it to rain all winter. We had enough snow last year to last us until at least 2012. My snow meter is quite full and doesn't need a refill at this time. A lot of people are saying that it would be nice to have a white Christmas. I say bah humbug. I want a traditional, rainy, Northwest Christmas.  Lots of gray skies, mild temperatures and Christmas lights are just fine by me.
So anyway...
Here are two of my favorite "You-tube" videos. Back in the early days of myspace I used to love to play with my page. I would take a photograph from my own collection and use it as the background and then make everything on my page go with the "theme" I had chosen. One time I chose rain and went looking for rainy things to add to my page. In the process I found these and several other really good "Singing in the Rain" videos and put them all on my page. It was great. These are my favorite two of them all.



This other one cannot be embedded by request of the artist, so you will have to click to go look at it, but it is a very clever dance done to the "Singing in the Rain" theme that includes a live person and lots of trash that comes to life as his dancing partner. I super enjoyed it and I hope you will, too.

The Dance by Mint Royale