I tell non-Washingtonians, who think it rains all the time here, that they are wrong. that summers are usually quite nice.The last summer I was here for a month, July/August 2004, I saw no rain, I saw few clouds, I saw The Mountain out pretty much every day. I was not cold once I got past the first few days of getting used to it being in the 70s.
I'd settle for the 70s right about now. I'd been staying in the basement here. or what I call The Arctic. Last night I moved to the upper loft, what I call The Tropics. My sister thinks it is too hot to live up here. However, the temperature has yet to get as high as I keep my A/C in Texas. Right now the thermometer on the A/C unit, in here, says it is 68. At 2 pm. While I see you in Fort Worth are at 96 heading to a high of 102.
We got in the low 50s overnight here. And this morning, to add wet to cold, it started raining. It's been raining ever since. Rain here does not fall like Texas rain. Texas rain comes in downpours and gets its wet business over quickly, sometimes dumping 5 inches in a half hour. In Washington the rain falls in slow motion. It can take 5 hours to dump half an inch.
So, I am quickly developing a case of Seasonally Affected Disorder. As you can see in the photo, this weather disorder has piled on top of all the other things bothering me and has me being a depressed, bed-ridden nutcase, trying to stay warm in my new little army cot that I fell out of twice last night. But slept remarkably well in. It was the tropics, afterall.
Mom and dad have gone til tomorrow. Or so we've been led to believe. Tonight we are making homemade pizza and BBQing steak. Rain permitting. I'm hoping between the pizza oven and the BBQ, I will at some point today feel some heat. I guess I could go take a hot shower. But that is sort of counter-productive, when you're done you have to step back out into the icy icy air.
This is the first time I've ever been back up here when I've thought to myself the following stunning thought. I miss Texas.
You might want to rephrase that to say, "I miss Texas weather." But, then, that can't really be true because on Monday we had one of those, "Stay indoors unless you want to die of heatstroke" days when the temperature surpassed 105.
ReplyDeleteI've only been to Washington twice. I was not miserable either time. Something must be wrong with you.
You're right. It's the Texas weather I miss. When you were here Global Cooling had not yet kicked in. We were still in the Global Warming years. It got down to 52 here last night. Right now it's clear skies, again, but 65 coming up on noon, with wind....brrrrrrr.
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