No matter how hard I try to remember how bad drought is or tell myself I am not going to complain about rain it always puts me in a bad mood. Rain always interrupts my plans and it always seems to come at the most inconvenient times. Although I guess to be fair there rarely is a convenient time for it unless it's at night and even then I would more than likely complain about the mud the next day.
If you can't tell it's been raining here lightly all day. Just enough to make everything wet and keep me from doing anything useful or pressing and to make matters worse the weather people keep promising it's going to stop any minute now. They been saying it all day. Even now the radar tells me it isn't raining while if I step outside I find out they are lying.
The thaw we been getting for the last couple of weeks has made the ground pretty wet anyway. We haven't had much rain this month and even though it has been warm it hasn't been warm enough to really dry the ground much so this day long drizzle has made getting off the gravel or well compacted roads impossible which also pretty much killed my wood cutting plan for the day. No big deal as I still have plenty in reserve or needing to be split but every time I go out to do it it starts raining harder.
I try to change my attitude towards the stuff, I really do but it never works. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if the forecasters weren't so often wrong and I could make myself trust them more but 7 out of 10 times they say it's going to rain it never does so I end up ignoring their forecasts and then get disappointed when I find out they were right for a change.
To make matters worse I was stuck inside and kinda suffering from a bit of writers block as well. Bored and irritable and just hopeful enough the rain would stop that I didn't start looking for something else to do.
Rain. Something to complain about when it happens and when it doesn't. It's kinda like dating an exotic dancer when your young. Annoying if it goes on too long but ya sure as hell miss it during the dry spells.
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The sun is out here but they say it is going to rain or snow. I spent hours with a file sharpening a buck saw and got it sharp but it still doesn't cut as fast as I want. It is
ReplyDeleteof course muddy here and I can't do much. Now if it was warm and muddy I could organize all the exotic dancers that I dated to have a mud wrestling contest and the winner would of course get me but that is just me thinking.
Sf - LOL mud wrestling is some fun times :)
DeleteActually wasn't as muddy today as I thought it was going to be after the rain yesterday. Was really a nice day for moving that tractor.
Maybe you should have a plan B & C & D etc just because you can never trust the weather folks. A friend of mine own a car wash here. The weather would drive him crazy at times. Mostly during the summer. If it rained he would close do some shopping or go see a movie or he we would call me up and go out for lunch on my days off.
ReplyDeleteRob - Ya I usually have something I can switch to but Winter rain is so much worse than the Summer ones. I really wanted to cut some wood and get back on that fence.
DeleteYou'd fit in pretty well over moaning about the weather - its a British pastime!
ReplyDeleteKev - LOL. I had some Welsh friends way back when that I did some medieval reenactments with who always said I would fit right in back at their home. Never got to the isles though spent all my time on the continent.
DeleteFor me Preppy, it is not so much the rain as the cold that goes with it, making it not fun to work outside under cover (the garage, in my case). On the bright side, it makes reading all the easier to justify.
ReplyDeleteTB - It sure makes the wood heat feel good too :)
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