Right on, Michael. Splain to these people. I don't remember a spring, in a while, where it was snowing at MJ's school last week (2200 feet?). Where we've been pushing hard for weeks to get the temperature up to seventy; and might by this weekend; and where I can't remember if the number of sunny days is three or five so far this year. I mean days were el sol was out, without a doubt. Let's make the requirement sunny from "dawn" to "sunset", with no period of rain, and no more than 40 pct cloud cover. I remember I think the summer of 72 was like this, all summer. It got "hot" (80?) and "dry" a couple of days in August; I remember, because I was a newby here and lived on a lake and was dying to go swimming all summer long. I settled, out of court. There were nothing but "seasoned" Oregonians here then; and I kept looking around to see if anyone was noticing; and they weren't. I has to buy a clothes dryer, after weeks, literally weeks, of waiting for my clothes to dry. I discovered things growing on trees I thought were science fiction.
Some of Lewis and Clark's men went nuts, I read, at Fort Clatsop. I mean nuts. They were not happy, and seemed to think this was damnation, and that being dead made sense. There was near mutiny. They wanted "out"; let me out. They could handle danger and cold and hunger and Indians, but there's a limit to sogsuck and mud.
But then again, it's sunny right now!!! We're twenty minutes into a "big one."
Still preferable to Dallas last summer. heh heh.
Yah, today looks like a beauty. Only cement cloud banks to the south and west so far. I'm going to try to bitch only half of today. What the heck - less.
I said try, now. |
