Rain...

While it's not an interesting topic to most, I have thought about it a lot since we moved up here. The Western Coast of Washington sees a lot of rain. When I heard we were moving here, I was not at all excited. Now that we are here, doesn't rain as much as I read or heard, and the rain is different. This is an El Nino year so of course the weather is going to be different, and I'm not going to say I'm upset about it. A normal winter here is about 20 degrees all day, and now its about 30 in the morning and 50 in the afternoon. Oh and the rain, well, we are lucky to see it about once a week.

So back home, the rain is nasty. It's sticky, and it stinks, and doesn't taste good when you stick your tongue out to taste it. Who am I kidding? Back home you really don't even want to breath the air more or less taste the water. But here, the rain is almost sweet. It's NEVER sticky, and always fresh. Occasionally they do 'stagnate air warnings' on the weather reports... lol... I haven't really understood what that completely means yet. But back to the rain... before back home, I hated to get out when it was raining. I hated getting my hair wet, my clothes, etc. Now, I have no problem with it. And screw an umbrella. Since it rains so often here, its rarely ever a hard rain, just steady.

I'm beginning to enjoy my new found partnership with the Washington rain. What I do not enjoy are the strong winds which are a regular occurrence.  Back home, a strong wind means a hurricane, a once in a lifetime tornado, or an extremely strong thunderstorm. Here, pretty much on a daily basis for no apparent reason at all other than because of where we are located, we have regular winds of up to 45 mph. And speaking of thunder, we never get any! There is no such thing as thunder in Washington. Anyways, I was just sitting here thinking about the rain... wanted to write down my thoughts...