Rain
This is precisely why I dislike being out in the rain. Now INSIDE… out of the rain… that’s a different story entirely. I love snuggling under a blanket in a comfy chair and watching the rain fall outside my window.
This is precisely why I dislike being out in the rain. Now INSIDE… out of the rain… that’s a different story entirely. I love snuggling under a blanket in a comfy chair and watching the rain fall outside my window.
Being out in the rain, getting soaked is no fun. Unless, there is the prospect of a hot mug of cocoa, or meybe a bowl of good soup waiting for me once I get inside. However I do enjoy sitting in my car at the beach in
Pacific Grove and watching the storm do it’s thing. Although, the beach is usually jam-packed on rainy days. I guess other people enjoy sitting in their cars in the rain as well.:)
I know Randie is usually strapped for cash, but all she’s gotta do is save up a measly ten bucks or so and get a nice rain poncho to wear on stormy days. A nice, loose-fitting and low-hanging one would give her a much brighter perception of rainy days, because most of her body and all of her carried stuff (like that bag) would be under a solid waterproofed canopy that keeps you nice and dry.
Kinda like me and Iowa winters. I can take the cold, but when it gets to be its coldest (like the 20-30 below we can see in February usually) I still don’t mind because I have my insulated gloves, thermal underwear and a nice heavy parka with a hood. Freeze my fingers in ten seconds or less if I took the gloves off, but as long as I stay suited up, I’m toasty! 😀
As for the rain, I miss the nights of my childhood when Dad and I would sit on the porch, watching the lightning while we listened to the weather radio. Was like watching the REAL Nature channel.
Timbuk2 messenger bags with the waterproof fabric. They’re pricey, (probably out of Randie’s price range), but man do I love mine… 🙂
Ha, now that’s one big sploosh pouring out of her bag.
I’m agreeing with you Wolf and McDuff, she’d have a much more positive outlook if her stuff wasn’t getting destroyed by water.
The girl is wearing jeans. Jeans usually have 4 pockets and sometimes an extra little “watch” pocket. If she puts her keychain in pocket 1, her coin money/change and pen and pencil in pocket 2, her paper money and cards (drivers license, atm, credit, library, frequent coffee club, business contact) in pocket 3, and her napkin sketches and any assorted coupons in pocket 4, she’s set. Her stuff wont get water ravaged and her hands and arms will be free to convey hand signals to the passerby who splashed her in yesterday’s comic.
If, on the otherhand, she’s committed to carrying around a purse and an actual sketchbook, and McDuff’s pricey Timbuk2 bags are out of reasonability, she ought to just get a plastic convenience store/supermarket/take-out bag with hand-hold cut outs, drop her purse inside and be on her merry, dry sketchbook, way.
Maybe she’ll learn from the water loggedness and enjoy future rains. Ha, no she won’t.
Wolf…
You, and well just about everyone else here, oughta like this little video that came across AOL a ways back. It’s what happens to boiling water when it’s tossed off the top of a Siberian apartment building on a chilly -41 degree day.
http://weather.aol.com/2012/12/19/watch-instant-vapor-forms-in-siberia/?icid=maing-grid7%7Chp-laptop%7Cdl5%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D248166
Squid…
Yikes, BIG WAVE surfing.
http://mavericksinvitational.com/
You, and all the other ocean watchers here, should like this website that will be providing live feeds of the Mavericks surfing contest this Sunday. Start time is 7:30 am, pacfic standard time.
Mavericks is a surfing spot in Northern California with a very unique sea floor that has some really big waves (15 to 25 foot) come blasting in after winter storms hit in the Pacific Ocean. The net effect is a big wave surf contest that is strictly limited to a couple dozen of the world’s best surfers who are normally given just 24 hours notice to show up and compete.
And, yes, this is the same contest featured in the movie from last summer called “Chasing Mavericks” with Gerard Butler.
College baseball begins in mid-February, when it’s still pretty cold (by our standards, anyway). We dress for baseball the way other folks dress for football: coats/jackets/sweaters/blankets.
I don’t mind sitting in the cold but I detest sitting in the rain. Especially when it’s rainy AND cold.
This is why I keep a wadded-up plastic grocery bag in my pack– if the pack is small enough, I can shove the whole thing in. If not, only the stuff that can be water-damaged.
chugenah…
Your pack carries your pack’s pack. Nice. Are you listenin’ Randie?
I’ll be at work stick
Squid…
The site will have videos up afterwards to watch at your convenience.
Once again, I’ll be at work stick.
Besides, surfing doesnt mean all that much to me anymore.:)
McDuff: I spent some time floating around the Timbuk2 website. I don’t own one… but I know I’d like to. Only thing is, they don’t seem to be 100 percent waterproof. This is what I want… something that will hold up to yesterday’s cartoon. If you have one that you’ve had under extreme conditions, I’d love to know of it.
Yah… Randie needs something… a trash bag… an umbrella… and with her bag fetish, she ought to invest in something… especially since she’s out of doors painting, delivering, traveling to work, for work…etc.
Stormy weather in other places can be scary… Storms in Ohio are violent! Lots of lightening and quick moving fronts that spawn tornadoes and such! Yahhhh! too much scary!
When I lived in PG… I enjoyed the rain (until it flooded my wierdo basement and the sump pump broke and it put out the pilot light on the water heater and…)…. I loved sitting in my living room chair and watching the rain fall and sipping my hot beverage whilst I sketched. The stormy waves are a joy to watch, which is why I often put Ryan& Randie near the ocean watching the water. Water is fascinating…. always in motion. Which is why you enjoy the surf, stick… I presume.