Mother Nature

Hi,
the weather just won't let up. It's raining cats & dogs today. Three weeks ago it was an earthquake, two weeks ago a hurricane, now we're back to flooding water. I surrender.

Weather watching has become an obsession with people. Since I can't control it or predict it with any accuracy I really don't care what the weather is or is going to be. I roll with it as best I can. Rain boots when it's wet, snow boots when it's cold. I learned all this in kindergarten and the rules haven't changed. As long as you stick to the parameters of weather issues then it usually turns out okay. Sometimes I forget my hat when it's sunny out but the rest of the time I'm dressed for success with Mother Natures' temper tantrums, better known as "bad weather".

Weather is never really bad. It may be excessive (see: floods, tornadoes, hurricanes and raining frogs) but it's all part of the game on this planet. It's when you get into weather denial that is when you have trouble. Tar paper shacks in Haiti don't ever stand a chance in hurricane season in the Caribbean. Anything less than a concrete silo in hurricane alley in the mid west is bound to fly at some point in time. Stilt built multi-million dollar mansions in Malibu are bound to end up in the Pacific on any given storm date. We are like ants, we build our homes in direct paths of nature and then wonder why they disappear in the drop of an tornado eye... only to rebuild them again in the same spot. Gosh we are a dumb species sometimes.

I bet the Weather Chanel is probably the most popular network right now. Broadcast news spends at least 25% of it's air time on weather reporting. Being a meteorologist is the best job going. You get paid for being right, and wrong, no matter what. Global warming, melting ice shields, shifting axis of the earth rotation. I can do nothing about any of these things except try and stay temperate and dry in my own abode.

I do have a new snow shovel ready and I'm starting to knit mittens in case anyone is still in weather denial that winter will be here before you know it. Enjoy the sun while it shines. I'm just hoping it comes out again before 2012.

xox
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