“Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
No need for me to describe the weather. Go back and look at the opening paragraph of every entry for the last week. I am so tired of this, and I don’t care anymore that the rain makes everything so lush and green. It’s spring when everything is green anyway. Monday’s have always been ugly days-drag yourself out of bed and go back to work days. The weather just adds to the misery of the day though I suppose a sunny day might be a worse day to work.
When I woke up, the house was chilly and damp so I put the heat on for about 15 minutes, and it did the trick, but heat on May 23rd is just wrong. The weatherman better be right about tomorrow. My sanity depends on it.
I went to the garden shop this morning. The Welcome, Kat sign was a nice touch. I filled a huge push basket with deck flowers and herbs then filled my trunk with them. The garden spot was pretty empty this morning so I had a personal garden shopper answering my questions. My choices, again, revolved around colors. As I was leaving, the employees let more balloons go. After this batch is planted, I’ll see if there is any room left for more.
The commercials on TV are summer. I watch people barbecue, chase fireflies, sit on their newly stained decks, eat hot dogs and melt marshmallows on the beach for s’mores. Meanwhile, my deck is covered in tree debris, the hanging candles sit forlornly in a pile and the table, which I’ve cleaned a couple of times, is back to disgusting. I swear I was outside by this time last year reading my book, drinking my iced coffee and watching the birds. Now I’m huddled inside wearing heavy clothes including socks and a sweatshirt trying to stay warm.
The weather makes me think I’m in the start of some science fiction novel. One day soon it will snow, and we’ll burn furniture to keep warm, but it won’t be enough. Marauding mobs will go from house to house looking for food. I’ll be the old lady with the gray hair hanging out the upstairs window brandishing a shotgun and warning them off. They’ll go, but they’ll be back.
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May 23, 2011 at 2:19 pm
I would like to call our weather slightly unsettled. Sun while we´re working and now wind and rain. It feels cold indoors but it isn´t to be honest. Perhaps I lit a fire in the stove for an hour or so anyway.
Our commercials are usually filled with sail bots, red cottages or bathing people. Most of them seems to drink beer or work in the garden right now 🙂 No fireflies or marsh mallows though, chips and chocolate yes 🙂
I wish You would have been my customer back in the days, then I most probably would have had the place still 🙂 🙂 🙂
Have a great day!
Christer.
May 23, 2011 at 8:29 pm
Christer,
It threatened rain all day but the day just stayed damp. The weatherman still says 70’s for tomorrow.
Lots of car commercials here filled with nothing of interest. Fireflies don’t come into later in the summer, usually late July.
You would be thrilled with the money I’ve spent.
May 23, 2011 at 5:31 pm
Yes, kids!!! It’s time for the Cascades!!!!
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_xY-ztyTNw
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njDqqWSnlwE
Cheers
May 23, 2011 at 8:33 pm
Wow, Minicapt,
The original with that opening clap of thunder has always been a favorite of mine, but I really liked this. It was unexpected, sadder maybe, definitely older, not just in age.
Thanks!!
May 23, 2011 at 5:38 pm
Are you sure we are not in a science fiction novel?
Trying to wave,
Lori
May 23, 2011 at 8:33 pm
Lori,
Sometimes I’m not so sure!
May 23, 2011 at 5:58 pm
Hi Kat,
I’m with you on the weather. Actually, I’m a little north of you so I have to be with you on the weather. The cool temperatures are not bothering me but some sun would be really nice. This is just too depressing. My back yard is so green and lush now it looks like the Amazon basin. Ah well, in a month or so we’ll be complaining about the heat and humidity. 🙂
May 23, 2011 at 8:34 pm
Hi Caryn,
I’m with you in missing the sun. I can take the cold but day after day of rain is just too much.
See, there you go with the lush, the weather’s only saving grace.
May 23, 2011 at 6:56 pm
There’s a reason folks have been moving steadily to the south part of the USA for some decades now. We’re the ones who are outside doing things from late February or March. If the life in the images you see interests you enough, you’ll follow suit and move south. (Even the birds do it!)
May 23, 2011 at 8:36 pm
Rick,
We have some lovely springs but just not this year. Fall is magnificent. I’d hate to leave.
May 23, 2011 at 7:47 pm
Hey Kat. I’ll trade you backyards??!!
May 23, 2011 at 8:36 pm
Z&Me,
No way!
May 24, 2011 at 6:15 am
First thought: don’t despare! Second: do despare by all means. You are tricked out of your very due, already not too long summer.
But do not lay your head down before it appears to snow in Ghana.
May 24, 2011 at 11:01 am
Bert,
The opening of the movie 2012 has it snowing in India. If I see a single flake in Ghana, I’ll know the world is in big trouble.
The paper today had a huge article about the weirdness of the weather especially the number of tornadoes in the south and west as well as the drought in Texas.
I’ll keep the faith!