Summer in the Pacific Northwest means that at the end-of-the-school-year picnic, you wear the same coat you wore in February. The rain floats down in a fine mist, rendering umbrellas pointless. Your toes curl in your shoes, victims of a lack of blood flow.
A fellow virtual-school mom is driving her family back “home” to Oklahoma next week to spend the summer in humid heat. They’ll be smacking bugs off their necks and wiping sweaty hair from their foreheads while we are donning sweatshirts on the fourth of July and carrying blankets to the fireworks display.
I’m used to this chilly weather, but today even I repeated, “I can’t believe it’s so cold,” at the beach. The children paid no mind, of course, and frolicked happily. My boys wandered as far from me as they possibly could and my daughter, the former leech, kept disappearing from my side and reappearing on the horizon. I continue to be shocked by this development in her persona.
One more week of school here in the nippy Northwest. I think I may be looking forward to sum-sum-summertime more than any of the children. Five days.
And tomorrow? I’m going garage-saling with my mother. It’s one of those huge community-wide sales where you can hopscotch from sale to sale. Can anything be better?
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Oooo I love those garage sales too! Have a great time! Let us know your best finds.
I love how opposite our weather lives are Mel.
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Yeah, my husband (who lived near Seattle for a couple of years as a teen) keeps trying to convience me that the weather is “mild all year around and it rains a little every afternoon” I am not buying it, I hear “cold and wet” YUCK!
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Last year at this time, we were well into our four-month heat-wave. Right now, it’s 48F out. We are off to a wedding to today — in a tent. Poor dears.
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I’m trying to be sympathetic — I know I would be weary of the cold if I were there — but in West Texas we’ve topped 100* for almost every day in June. July and August are going to be uber-miserable!
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I went yard-saling for the first time this season yesterday– too fun!
Mary, mom to many
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I’ve told hubby that when we retire, I want to live on the Oregon coast, now…I’m not so sure. lol.
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Friday was my day without the baby so I did some thrift store shopping in amongst some errands and grocery shopping. I found the coolest Tiki god, about 4′ tall, to fit in the back corner of my flowerbeds at a Goodwill. A little white wrought-iron bird cage with little flower buds twined around it that I put a houseplant in and have on top of my stereo. An ugly little stoneware pig with “Uncle Albert” and “Admiral Halsey” inscribed into its sides…reminds me of the Beatles, haha! Hope you found LOTS of great, fun buys…thrift stores and garage sales are the BEST!!!
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garage sailing rocks.
I don’t think my Mom has ever been to one though… (they are beneath her)
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