It has rained all day today and twice on Monday, therefore I have decided to knight this week’s word as “rain”.
Reminds me of England. Reminds me of back home. In 1997, I visited family and friends in the driest of months in the UK. Yes, the month of October. Of course I am being sarcastic because for the entire three weeks I was in England it either, drizzled, misted or tipped down! I was not spared one minute of damp weather. And you’d think I would be used to if after all, I am British.
As miffed, as I might seem about the incessant rainy weather, it’s more because it reminds me of home. Another little anecdote... On rainy days at primary school, we would spend out breaks indoors, listening to the drops pitter-pattering outside. Our teacher would have us sit down on the floor and we would listen to her read some Beatrice Potter or Mr. Men stories.
We would press our noses up against the classroom window and chant:-
Rain, rain go away
Come again another day
All the children want to play
So rain, rain go away
Sometimes as quickly as the downpour had started it would vanish and we could catch the last fifteen or twenty minutes in the playground. But by then the climbing frames would be soaking wet and the grass just as treacherous.
Will I ever get used to the dark, damp, rainy days ahead? I doubt it but the memories will go a long way to warm my heart and turn this girl’s frown upside down!
Pretty dismal here in New Hampshire. As bad as Connecticut is we get it a lot worse up here. I’ve only lived in New England for three years – Southern California, originally – so I’m still getting used to it…lol
Living in Illinois, growing up in here in the mid west we are fair share of rain, and as well we should. The farmers need it to produce crop. Not a lot of people think to much about that. At time when people wish it wouldn’t rain, other are praying for rain.
Being in construction work most of my life. I don’t work if it’s raining. So there are times when the rain cost me money.
I grew up in a small town and knew some farmers. So I would just ask them to pray for rain to come in the night.
Yes Jason, we all depend on rain and in the part of America – the North East, we can take it for granted. We get enough rain in general to support the population here so we forget that there are places where it’s a real problem when there isn’t enough of it. It’s been raining here for the past three days but the temperature has been mild – which sort of makes up for it?