Winter is a coming !

[KICKSTART]

Well we have had loads of rain over here lately and i must confess ive got a secret ! I love to listen to the rain on a glass or tin roof, but seeing i dont have either ive taken to standing outside in the garden with my new umberella . I have bought one of those dome shaped clear ones , that comes right down over your head and shoulders and now after a hellish day i stand out under it , maybe only for 10 mins , but the fresh air and the sound of the rain is so soothing ! I also like to snuggle under my duvet and listen to the rain through an open window , like tonight !  Weird or what?  Anyone else find something unusual soothing ?

[thegrammalady]

no, not weird at all. i love the sound of rain, so much better than snow. i especially like the smel of rain and wet cement.

[cloud393]

Wehave a camper set up for the season and I love going to sleep listening to a heavy rain on the roof.  like you said...soooothing.
I hate the winter though.  Can't stand the cold!  My dream is to some day move to a Caribbean island.  I just love the sound of the ocean.

[MooseMom]

Ricky G, all my years living in the UK taught me to love the colour grey.  I grew to love the English drizzle; it's soothing and it makes the air smell so nice.  Our bedroom is painted grey, and it's remarkably relaxing.  I know the Brits love to complain about the weather, but I learned to love that soft rain.  Here in Chicago, when it rains, it RAINS...everything is so extreme.  And LOUD!

I always slept with the windows open no matter the weather.  Now, I have to keep the windows closed for some of the time because of the heat or bugs.

[natnnnat]

Anyone else find something unusual soothing ?

 
Well, one day when I was hot headed and young (now I'm just hot headed), I did that thing where you say to the boss, "you know what you can do with this job?"  And then I marched out in grand dudgeon.   While it was fabulous and I was fabulous at the time, I was deflated a  long time after the high wore off, and then I was unemployed a little while after that.  I don't recommend this course of action which I give a rating of one star.

The point is that the afternoon after my grand exit, I felt particularly low and grubby.  Now like some others on these boards, I looooove chickens.  I had a little flock of about 5 old chooks, and two chicks which someone had donated.  I went down into the garden to check on the chooks, and I ended up sitting on a crate in the chook pen, with the chicks climbing on me.  They climbed on my shoulders and onto my head, and pooped in my hair.  It was strangely comforting to commune with the chickens.
And that is the end of my story of strange comforts.

[jbeany]

I want more than just rain - there's nothing more relaxing than watching thunderheads and lightening rolling in over the lake.  Better yet if you have a covered porch you can watch from so you can be outside without getting drenched while you watch.  Ahhhhhh.

[Hazmat35]

I'm originally from the north (Detroit, U.S.A), and love the changing leaves and colors of the fall. 

Can't say that I love the winters with all the blowing cold snow, but now I live in FLORIDA and love the winter months.  It will finally get DOWN to the mid 70's instead of this blasted 90 degree plus days we've been having. 

Can't beat Florida in the winter time! 

[Poppylicious]

Kickie love, where did you buy your umbrella?  I've been wanting one, but have only found small ones made for children.  I had one when I was little and LOVED it. 

As for the rain, I think I'm the only person I know who will happily turn down a lift when it's raining.  I enjoy walking in the rain; it clears my head.  And on the plus side, when I turn up at work looking like a drowned rat (like today) I get oodles of sympathy.

 

Blokey loves listening to the rain at night, particularly when the rain is accompanied by thunder storms. 

[murf]

Nah! Winter is finished. We are now into spring, 27 degree heat, smell of fresh lawn and cricket. Tee hee.

[Restorer]

I can't wait until it starts raining again, so I can put on a warm sweater, take my laptop out, and sit on my (covered) balcony and listen to the rain. I love the smell of the air when it rains too.

[Riki]

I hate winter, mostly because it means I'm housebound.  It's not like I"m not housebound now, but there is no snow and ice, so my homebodyness is my choice.  In winter, it's not a choice.

I do love rain, though, and listening to it hitting the roof of the house is soothing.  I also love big thunderstorms with big flashes of lighting, especially at night when it's easier to see the flashes.

I'd say my weird comforting thing is the smell of exhaust, gasoline and burnt rubber.  When I was little, we had a garage in the basement, and Dad kept a drag car there. I don't know if he ever raced it, but he kept it in our basement.  Every once in a while, he'd go downstairs and start it up, and rev the crap out of it.  The whole house would shake, and the exhaust fumes would just roll through the house.  We were always around race tracks when we were kids too, so those smells were everywhere.  When my bro and I moved into an apartment together a few years ago, we lived next door to a gas station.  We both used to go outside or open a window the day the gasoline truck arrived with it's weekly delivery, just so we could take in the smell of the gasoline in the air.  He says that we're probably the only two people in the world who get warm fuzzies when stuck behind a bus in traffic.. *L*

[ChickenLittle56]

In a way I hate summer because it is to hot to be outside. For about 4-5  months I am stuck inside cooling off. I do much miss the summer up north with all the tall green trees. I don't even mind the snow. That reminds me, about 1/4 inch of snow fell on the ground and people just south of us came to see and pick it up. That was a rarity in our neck of the woods(cactus). A little ice on the ground can and did shut the whole town down. People were just to afraid to drive. pansies 

[gregory]

I live in the mountains so I sometime get stranded in the city if it snows during my treatment, The highway patrol closes the freeway. So I get a motel room and room service and watch movies

[kitkatz]

Snow in Southern Ca this weekend in the Mountains. Rain in our town!

[Riki]

snowed here yesterday too.  This is what my side yard, looking out the back door, looked like as it was falling yesterday..

[cloud393]

Oh Riki, yuck!!!!  I'm not ready for that stuff.  Brrrrr......

[galvo]

I looked at your photo, Riki, and started shivering!

[Poppylicious]

I looked at your photo, Riki, and started shivering!

Ha. Me too! 

Riki, that's about as much snow as we get over here in the UK for the whole of winter! (Although, last year we had a tad more.)

 

[murf]

But the picture looked so pretty. Was 39 Celsius on Sunday and it's only November. I have seen snow but never lived with it.

[Rerun]

It is about 3 outside.  Going to get down to -15 tonight.  The neighbor kids are getting RICH from shoveling my driveway.  BRATS!  Whatever happened to helping old ladys out?   

Please stop snowing!       

[galvo]

Sitting here in my undies at 28c.

[Desert Dancer]

Oh, I DO miss winter - it's so beautiful! I used to love when we would get ice storms in Jersey; every last twig and blade of grass completely encased in ice. The moon would light up everything and made the whole world look like it was made out of sparkly glass. The snow muffled everything so it was completely silent, except for the wind rustling and hissing through the pines and cedars.  Brrr! Now I remember: the cold!  I can't stand the cold!

I wouldn't mind winter if I didn't ever have to drive in it. I'd LOVE winter if I could just stare at it through a bay window with a book and a cup of hot chocolate. Until that day, I'm stuck in Arizona. (January in Arizona is utterly sublime, but you earn every last bit of it through the summer.)

[RichardMEL]

A beautiful picture - much like a postcard - but I wouldn't want to be out in it.

Right now here though as summer approaches it's about 20C (closing in on 70F), raining and 95% humidity - yes it's very sticky - and I should be sleeping.. but it's too icky to sleep. Bonus is all this sweat means my fluid weight will be down for D tomorrow... I might have an iced water

I just hope this horrid humidity breaks soon....

[looneytunes]

We are getting freezing rain and "wintery mix" today and tomorrow...brrrr, walking the dogs in this will be "brisk". 

[Poppylicious]

Currently the temperature over here is about five degrees below the average for this time of year.  It also appears to be snowing throughout the UK, but not here in the FlatLands. 

*happy sigh*