Overcast and downcast
posted in Alaska |We had sunshine today. Seven hours of it! Woohoo!
And then it clouded over again, full-scale overcast. And started drizzling.
Oh, yes, and it was sunny while I was working. The clouds moved in, of course, just as I ended my work day.
Travelocity sent me an email today, saying, "We miss you!" I flashed on sunshine and warm weather and vivid deep-blue skies and ponderosa pines smelling like vanilla in the sunlight. So I logged onto Travelocity (hey, it was a cute email!) and searched out fares from Big City, AK, to The Valley of Death, AZ.
And then I just sat there, wan and depressed, as the cheapest I could find was $600 round-trip.
That damned email had talked about oh-so-awesome cheap deals! A few hundred to get from A to B! Toss in a rental car and a few nights at a hotel, and add only another hundred! But those awesome deals don’t apply to travel from The Final Frontier…
We had sunshiny days for a week back in early May. And one sunshiny day last week. And today. Today it actually got up over 60F degrees!
OmegaDad, reading over my shoulders, patted me on the head and told me that everyone tells him this is an unusual spring/early summer, and that it’s usually sunny and dry and gorgeous at this time of year. My response was to ask him, "So I get sunshine next year, eh?"
I know that the Midwest is getting pounded with rain. We could be dealing with tornadoes, or hurricanes, or flash floods, or miserable 99F days with 99% humidity. But right now, it’s gray. And I feel gray.
(Edited on Monday to add: Gah! To add insult to injury, some damned spammer edited my post!)
