How'd I End Up in Seattle?!

Somehow I clicked my heels three times and ended up in Seattle. I have never wanted to live in Seattle. I would go for a day, maybe two, but that is all I think I could take. And yet, without leaving the greater New Jersey environs, I've been transported to that part of the United States.

I think we have had three sunny days in all of June. I get that it is 21 June (in 3 hours) but we have seen much sun.

It rained on Monday. It was okay on Tuesday, but overcast. Wednesday sprinkled. Thursday POURED, so did today. Friday was sunny and beautiful and I missed it almost completely being in my office from 1000 to 1945. Groan...

This morning I awoke around 0330 and looked up the time of the Moonrise - 0200. Okay. It was clear out on Friday and I had heard it might be clear in the early morning. I went outside and wore a sweater and cargo pants. I can't remember the last time I wore sweater in June. It was cool and rather damp. But there, hanging in the eastern sky like a golden sickle, was the crescent Moon, in its last day of visibility before reaching the new phase. And Venus was bright in the sky, almost even with the Moon, shining like a beacon. It was so bright I thought it was an airplane, until I realised it was completely stationary. Quite amazing.

I missed the conjunction of Mars, Venus and the crescent Moon yesterday, but I'd have had no way to see it. Not unless I develop a way to see through the thick cloud cover that seems to be prevelent these days.

April was quite wet. That is not unusual, April is the closest we get to a "rainy season". It is not unusual to have rained out outings and events in the first month of the season.

May was unreal. We had a ton of rain and I forget if we had 5" of excess rain; it was something outrageous like that. I figured okay, well, what's a little extra rain? We always seem to need rain in Parsippany.

June has come and now it has nearly gone and most of it has been either drizzly, raining steadily or pouring with a vengeance. Thursday was a wash. Today wasn't much better although I know it did not stop today's event. It just made it a soggy one. I am imaging footprints permanently mired in some of the greens...

Tomorrow doesn't look promising. The current forecast shows rain through Tuesday. Good gods. And my crew on Thursday kept saying how we need this rain.

I disagree. I need sunlight. I need blue skies. I need to lay in my hammock. My hammock needs to be rung out. It is rope and probably weighs about 50 pounds now.

I'm flying about 2,000 miles to get away from this weather. It's a desparate move, but I need my fix of sunshine!

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