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need  to find another way to do these days…if i can.   Tomorrow there will be somewhat of a reprieve… only 34% chance of rain.  What that means usually is that there will be intermittant rain through the  day.   Which i will be so grateful for.  But then  forecast is to roll right back into daily rain.  Weeks still.   so..ok.   it will be what it will be.   and i keep reminding self that it's probably going to change come  February.  so…not forever,   right?     It's never been this way before.    Maybe i can try drawing what it feels like.  

 

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  1. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    sad … seasonal affective disorder … one of the reasons I very much like being in Texas as I really do need sunlight (not just want it, but feel physically need-full if there is too much lack of it) … the summer is brutal here with way more sun than needed, but this time of year is the payoff
    I hope you get some reprieve, however that may happen

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  2. CatherinE Avatar
    CatherinE

    I was remembering your posts from the intense heat of a few months – weeks? – ago. How things have changed.

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  3. jude Avatar
    jude

    It’s been feeling like it will rain forever here too.

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  4. maria Avatar
    maria

    grace i will give you ” troost” (in dutch )comfort /consotation , here we have jet rain during weeks and it will go on for day’s and day’s
    somme “moment” sun for 10 minute the rest without rain is grey GREY so it is dark from 17u still 8.45 u in the morning
    so i can see better the sprancles of candellight … and the warmt of it to …but … we have no frosen and no real cold 10 C 15 C , for you that is between 50 F and 59 F
    so i sent you a dry HUG… hahaha
    and a hug for the goat’s aswell and for EMRIE and you to !

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  5. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    It must be hard not being happy to get the rain after such long periods of no rain. The extremes in weather all over is really scary. I know it is so much harder for you with trying to care for the goats. I wonder how talkie is doing?? I do love that you come here daily so we know how you’re doing .. it’s probably hard for you to believe you have people in many parts of the world that care about you very much. 😘

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  6. Joy in az Avatar
    Joy in az

    Yes please draw what it feels like.if it’s helpful if it’s nurturing for you. i watch news & weather from Sacto, try to feel how it is, i lived in Fair Oaks as a kid…the subdued natural light of your photos brings out the colors in a deeper way

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  7. Faith Avatar
    Faith

    I like the idea of drawing how it feels. I’m pretty sure doing that helps. I know art helps me.
    I’m like Liz. I NEED sunlight. Often wonder HOW I ended up in Oregon with its nine months of nearly unrelenting rain and gray and two to three months of unrelenting sun. (Oh, yeah–family). Thank goodness for SAD lights and daylight lightbulbs, even if they only partially help.

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  8. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    I feel that way about endless sunshine too, crave rain by the end of August most years. It’s the extremes, the “never been this way,” the weather that makes things hard, it’s a lot to process sometimes.
    I had a pipe break a couple weeks ago …had a real moment of why am I doing this? Luckily it was a pretty easy fix and my brother was able to help. Still laying there in the snow trying to turn my water off, trying to figure out what to do…still thinking about this.

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  9. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Yes, so much rain (down here I am grateful for the break in commuting) after so much heat…
    I think of you each day. Stay dry and well, stay well.

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  10. Elizabeth Avatar
    Elizabeth

    dear grace, it has rained and rained and rained here, months of devastating floods across the whole vast country and wet, cold and grey here in Ballarat. But so much rain is still marvellous, when with every day of rain I know that the dry years are returning soon.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    SUN

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes. Extremes

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    what if it did?????????????????????????

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    is comforting to know this…
    we send Sunshine back and forth

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    it is hard to believe. i feel boring.

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Joy….i think of you in your boat

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i remember giving up on Oregon, and here i am

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i am so incredibly grateful for no ceiling leaks

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i would still take the heat. you can get naked.

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i am beyond Happy to find you here!!!!!
    yes…wet dry wet dry and we cook and wander…
    oh…just so glad you appeared today….LOVE

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