Bad Weather Blues
“THE PERSEID METEOR SHOWER may be exceptional” this year, but you wouldn’t know it here in Colorado Springs. It’s been overcast and raining since last week, mostly. A shame, too – I’m all hopped up on Red Bull, trying to put the final touches on a little something. Staying up to watch the meteors wouldn’t be a problem. Except for all the fog and clouds.
Remember the drought and the wildfires I spent so much time complaining about? Methinks I didth complained too much. While everyone, everywhere else it seems was baking in record temps, we’ve had maybe one day above 88 in the last eight days. Last week, Melissa borrowed one of my winter shirts to wear to work – she doesn’t yet have any winter maternity clothes.
But I won’t complain – oh, no. If only because this is the first summer in three that big patches of our lawn didn’t die.
Colorado Springs is so beautiful!… I have two friends from Oklahoma who live there… Congratulations to you and your wife! I was having babyitis real bad so I had to get a golden retriever! My babies are grown up!
Complain? Whadda ya mean, complain? I’d kill to have weather so cool that people wearing winter clothes weren’t subject to being snatched up off the street and summarily committed to mental institutions.
You forgot to mention that it’s the first summer in years where Lake of the Rockies (in Monument) and Palmer Lake just to the north have real water!
You know steve- we have an average of 310 days of sun per year. The other days have to come from somewhere- strange as it may seem.
I was sitting outside with a beer (a Lagunitas IPA, to be exact) at 1600′ elevation 50 miles from Lewiston ID – i.e: real dark – until abut 2:30AM. The meteor shower wasn’t that hot; I’ve seen better. The beer and the company were good, though.