I am so tired of rain, I can’t tell you. It rained most of May. It’s been raining for most of what amounts to June so far. Sometimes it feels like someone is standing in my driveway with nothing better to do than chuck huge buckets of dirty water on my house. Now, June is often rainy in my neck of the continent, but this is getting ridiculous. Usually, when June is rainy, we’ve had a pleasant spring. Especially our Mays, which can be gorgeous (but not this year). However, this year I feel like we’ve missed out on spring entirely. When the rain stops and I turn off the furnace, within a day I need the air conditioner, because the weather hops from cold, cold rain to hot, hot sun overnight. Then back again.
I have weeds in the concrete that need spraying. I have to blow/sweep the driveway. Neither of these tasks can be accomplished in the rain. And, gee, wouldn’t it be nice to take the writing outside once in a while?
How’s the weather in your part of the world? As out of whack as mine? If you’re a writer, does the weather affect your progress? Would you rather edit when it’s cloudy out, write new pages when it’s sunny? Or does it not matter? My creativity is tied to the weather to a point. The weather isn’t an excuse not to write (or try to write, as the case might be). But I admit my muse would rather play (as in work) when the sky is blue. It can be colder than a witch’s you-know-what, I love those blue skies!
Cindy–for those of us here in the American Midwest, it’s been HOT. And in between the heatwaves, we’ve been having these weird storms–these seriously heavy storms often accompanied by TORNADO warnings…which really throws me off my writing game. I, personally, like writing when it’s rainy (then I don’t feel so guilty about how I’m not outside exercising or doing yard work :), but life-endangering, property-damage-creating storms, no.
Hope it brightens up for you soon :).
We need rain, but it will be 101 and sunny from now until…probably Halloween.
I like rainy days myself, as long as I don’t have to leave the house. Makes me feel cozy and wintry-like, unlike the days when the sun is blinding but no one can enjoy it because it’s 101. We really have no spring here. There are a few weeks in Dec and Jan that it’s cold enough to wear long sleeves, and then the rest of the time we just melt. lol
Marilyn, I feel bad complaining about rain when tornadoes are happening. I’ve never experienced anything like that.
Avery, if I lived somewhere where it was 100 degrees most of the year, I’d like rain, too. As it is, I could stand some sun.
Well, peoples, I’m having no end of computer problems, so if I disappear… you’ll know why.
Here in So. Cal. we had one good rain in May and nothing since. Don’t expect any significant rain between now and maybe October. Fire season has started already and everything is dried out, so I wish you could send us some of your rain. I’d happily send you some sunshine. 🙂
Linda
Linda, I feel your pain. We had a lot of really bad forest fires a couple of years ago. Why can’t nature spread things out a little more?
Yesterday was nice, now today is so-so again. We could use the sunshine (although not the forest-fire level, thank you very much).