Shakespeare. Twelfth Night.
He understood.
It’s dark and gloomy here.
Cue someone who has been begging for rain now complaining about too much rain.
And that someone is me.
We are on our 5th or 6th day in a row of torrential rain. It isn’t raining all of the time, but when it does rain, it comes down hard. It’s also unbearably humid.
Don can’t go outside and use his camera. I can’t work in the gardens. I’m going a bit stir-crazy. So is Don. This will last through tomorrow and there’s more on the docket for next week. As you might expect, we have flood watches all around the Hudson Valley.
We haven’t been able to sit in the Secret Garden since last Saturday.
Waaah!
Okay, I’ll stop complaining.
The rudbeckia is in bloom everywhere and thank goodness for it! Those splashes of yellow are so needed on these dark days. It’s such a cheery flower!
We’re going to do something this afternoon. I’m not sure what, but we definitely need a distraction. If it’s at all interesting, I’ll take pictures.
I know this is short, but that’s truly all I have for you today. Nothing Is Happening.
Happy Thursday.
it’s good to let things out!
i feel the same way about day after day after day of high heat (and for me, that’s anything over 80 degrees … a high of 70 would be even better), humidity and glaring sunlight. not enough to move to the rainy pacific northwest and certainly not wanting it flood-level, but i do love cloudy, rainy days and sweater weather!
trust you will find something fun to do today. :) happy thursday!
kathy in iowa
70 would be perfect!
meant to add …
love that lamp and the “dark and dreary” moodiness of your photo. thanks for sharing!
Thanks, Kathy!
I love the lamp too Kathy
Hope you do find a lovely and dry distraction
The UK 🇬🇧 unspeakably hot and we are headed to visit our daughter in London- our cottage is too empty now our darling girl is gone
Siobhan x
I’ve seen photos from England. Way too hot and dry and for too long. I’m thinking of you!
In June/July, I was in Southern Europe, Spain, France and Italy, where one expects hot. Then i got to England. London was hot. Cornwall, where i expected to find relief with cooler temps and occasional rain was hot. Bath was hot.
Siobhan, stay hydrated and being light clothing and a hat! Have fun. I’m missing England a lot.
Very hot in England.
I am doing my best ! Glad you had a good trip
S x
To compensate for the weather I have just spent a sublime evening listening to Roseann Cash- beautiful and a funny woman to boot
S x
She’s wonderful!
You have rain and humidity and we have sun, heat and no rain. Also forest fires, but none near me yet, and no smoke. Yet. I’m near Seattle. So I am going to be very careful what I wish for. Maybe wish for the heat to be spread more evenly so you will lose that humidity, and we get lower temps. But if we get lower temps that means we are getting a marine push from the ocean and that means more winds through the Cascades and that means more very hot and dry windy weather in eastern Washington, and that means it is more dangerous and difficult to fight the fires. So damned if I get my wish and damned if I don’t. I have running around to do today and helping someone with their housework, so no rest. It just sounds good to sit and read. We don’t have AC and it will be 90º or above for the next four days. But I do have a small AC for the kitchen. I guess I’ll live. But not comfortably! LOL
I know. There are such extremes all over the country. The fires are very worrisome.
I just wish we had some ‘normal!’
Too much of a good thing is always bad! We have had so much rain this summer but are experiencing a few sunny days right now. The claims adjuster was here to look at the dinged up car this morning so we should be getting it fixed fairly soon. I’m having a Grammie/Scout day tomorrow…can’t wait!
Have fun tomorrow, Linda!
Gee, I would love a quiet day to spend in the sewing room and doing laundry and mopping the floor. you are luckier than you know. But you write beautifully, keep it up.
I’ve had 5 quiet days in a row. It’s all relative.
All of you in the East are really getting soaked..too much of a good thing! I sympathize with the restlessness….hope you can get out today…somewhere interesting!
Love that lamp…really sets the mood! ;)
Too much. Feast or famine!
No rain forecast for at least two weeks here. The temps have been mild and blue sunny skies. I wish you could export a little of your rain to us! I usually love rainy days, drinking a hot drink and reading a book. But days and days of relentless rain brings on cabin fever. Hope you and Don find a fun outing to interrupt the current wet ordeal.
Exactly! We definitely have cabin fever! I just tried to go outside to take some photos and my lens kept fogging up.
Send some of that rain to dry-as-a-bone Southern California!!!
You can bet if I could, I would!
It just seems that everything (and I do mean everything) is now in extremes. Too much heat, too much humidity, too little rain, too much rain, and on and on. I guess there no longer is a normal to be found ~ anywhere or in anything.
Hope you find a wonderful distraction this afternoon, and your lenses don’t fog. Now there is a new wish for you!!
Yes. Extremes. Everywhere.
Lenses fogged, but I got around it!
Wow, y’all are getting slammed with rain in the Valley. We had good amounts of rain Tuesday, Tuesday night & at intervals yesterday but evidently, nothing like you folks. Just plenty to refresh everything up here which really needed it – we were beginning to see the yellow, droughty crispy lawns etc. There were in-ground sprinklers where I used to live & I miss them. They ran on a schedule at night – and even though they usually sprinkled my car liberally too – I loved it that we always had plush thick beautiful grass all Summer. Sounds like you’ve had more than enough to refresh everything too, so Mother Nature can take a break and save some water for another week or so. Spread it around, Mom! In the meantime, it’s a great opportunity to catch up on “inside things.” Even though none of us want to be inside during the Summer – we have to do enough of that in the Winter. Peace. 🌿
#Resist
#ProtectMueller
We got so much rain! The ground is thoroughly soaked, so it will be a couple of days until I can mow. Today – so far – it’s sunny. Fingers crossed we are done with the rain!
I got soaked twice yesterday by going outside…but my flowers and tomatoes are loving it..Love sweet tomatoes right off the vine!
Enjoy those tomatoes, Nancy!
North Jersey has the same weather, and I do nothing but complain!
I love your lamp! Cozy soft light. Can’t wait for fall.
I’m not ready for fall yet, but I am ready for some dry weather!
The weather has been awful. The humility is unbearable. All the rain is causing havoc in some places. I heard that Hershey Park had to be closed yesterday because of flooding.
Marilyn
I’m not surprised, Marilyn!
Love the lamp. And your glowers.
Thank you, Donna!
LOVE the lamp – great photograph!
Thank you, Susan!