Weather!

[lillian13]

It's raining! Which is good, since we're in what the weather boffins call an Extreme Drought (which I always want to see spelled X-Treme! Drought). Yes, my plants are happy and the car is looking clean, but it comes with a few drawbacks*:

The frakking humidity is insane. Normally I'm used to it, but because of the X-Treme! Drought we've been very dry for so long that I had nosebleeds. It's hard to get used to 70 wet degrees at night, which means A/C Right Now OMG rather than being at 70 dry degrees, which just means another open-windows night with no covers. (Plus, my OMG AC decided that it didn't really feel like cooling anything, so I moved my small fan into the bedroom last night and suffered.) Plus doing anything at all means instant sweat. Ew.

I have a show this weekend. If it keeps raining this week I'll have to slog in mud to put up the tent (The Nephew is helping, yay!) and then wash off everything before I store it again. I'm hoping I don't get a repeat of two years ago, when the show ended with a large storm and me taking down a metal-framed tent under a large oak tree. Good times!

Mosquitoes. They still haven't replaced all the torn window screens from the hailstorm last month, so the little bastards have free entry to the buffet (me). My one pitcher plant on the porch can only do so much. Come home, Mexican Freetailed Bats! We miss you!

* Yes, I know, I am very, very happy about the rain. Maybe we are finally entering a normal rainfall pattern and will get out of the drought without a flood for once. It would be nice! But the timing could have been a bit better. I'm just sayin'.