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.

Now it is raining again...

I guess we only get one day of sunshine every other week this year. So tired of waiting and waiting to have a few nice days in a row. When I was younger I didn't let the rain stop me from doing things. I just put on my boots and went out and got the things done that I could do. Now that I am older it just doesn't seem inviting anymore. I remember when I used to walk five miles a day, six days a week. It didn't matter what the weather was like. The only weather that could make me skip my walks was snow on the ground, because it was too hard to get any traction.
I have been editing and organizing photos. I have been cleaning up things inside. I have been wasting time on the computer playing games. All this is fun and good, but what I really want to do is get started on my outdoor stuff. We did get the straw bales set last night. They are a little angled across the spot they are sitting, but they are there. The rain helps me with this project because I am supposed to soak them for about a week before planting them. I will go buy my plants later this week so that I can plant them next weekend.
I ordered a new camera today. It is not a DSLR. I really want one of those, but decided to upgrade my Fujifilm first. I love my Fuji camera and now I'm getting one with even better features. It actually has a "smile detector" and waits to shoot until the smile is detected. This should be great for the Logan and Daelin, who both try to thwart my attempts at pictures of smiling children and babies! I'm so excited. It should be here in a week. That means I can give my current camera to Keri. I can get a new door for the camera I already gave her and fix it. I can then give that one to David and Nikki. Jeren is disappointed because he wanted my camera, but I want Keri and David to be able to take pics of their kids. I told Jeren I would look for one for him. I think I can pick one up from ebay at a reasonable price and that can be his birthday present.
I was going through pictures and forgot about these ones of Logan at last year's BBQ. Maybe one of these days summer will come and we can have another BBQ.


This one is not at the BBQ, but I thought it was funny. He was wearing my plastic bowls as a hat.



Trying to start the tractor.



Chasing the kitty!



Smart kitty ran behind the fence.



Caging the marshmallow.

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?

It's a rainy, windy, sunny, rainy, windy day today.

Last night the wind blew so hard that it shook the house. I could hear stuff blowing about and hitting the house and roof but it was dark so I couldn't really see anything. The lights flickered a few times and I thought we were going to lose power, but this time we didn't. It did, however, blow over our lawn swing and the recycling containers, as you can see from the pictures below. They are a little blurry because I was in a hurry to go get David this morning.





Today started out rainy and windy, but then we got a little reprieve and I was able to go out and clear some of the debris in the dog's yard and make a path along the fence in preparation for the bulldozing I want to do back there.


I decided to work outside until the weather changed or Keri arrived with Logan, whichever came first. Keri arrived with Logan first, so I cleaned up my mess, put things away and came in the house. She left and I made myself some lunch, but before I could even finish it, the sky darkened and suddenly we had a downpour, as can be seen in the following two pictures.





I love wind and rain storms, but like them better when I don't have to go out in them. (sigh) It's my Monday.

Alright, but I still really want it to be spring, now!

Even though I am really, really ready for spring, I still get a little excited when I see snow falling.

When I left work last night it was a little warmer than earlier in the day. It wasn't raining at the time, but it had rained a little earlier and things were wet. As I got about twenty blocks from my house I noticed it "started" snowing. Then, all of a sudden, I realized that the ground was covered in snow all around me and as I got closer to my house even the streets were covered in snow. So weird. No snow at all down town, but covered in snow at my house. It snowed off and on all night and then this morning it really poured some snow. Here's the pics.












Now, mind you, if you drive a couple of miles or so west and twenty blocks south, there is just a trace of snow, if any on the ground. Crazy. I live in a little snow belt, I think.