WEATHER

Yes, life is strange. Better yet so is the weather. It started out cloudy and cold. I grabbed my coffee cup and left for “the gathering.” No gathering. Head office was having a big meeting in the commons until 11:00. I never did find a note to that affect. Doesn’t matter, they were there.

I took off to find some economical stores and buy myself a new pair of pants for my birthday. I held back on some medical bills to treat myself. Treat may not be right. This was a real need. I have only two pair that fit properly, and not torn or stained so bad I’m embarrassed. Found two I could afford. Very happy!

When I came out of the stores it was sunny and warming. Looked to be a nice day ahead. Stopped at my barber and watched it get brighter and saw a man walk into the barber shop wearing only a t-shirt. Must be getting even better.

Went back to the other building to see if headquarters was finished. They weren’t but a group was gathering in the pool table room. Clouds were forming. The commons meeting broke up at 11:00 and we moved in closer to the snacks and coffee. Within ten minutes it was pouring rain. Not the typical northwest drips, but real rain, like pouring down rain. It takes only seconds to develop a pool outside the commons window. It was also pounding the window.

The weather broker 30 minutes later so I went to my apartment. There I worked on the newsletter for a while and took a nap. I know I was getting tired, but a 3 hour afternoon nap was long even for me. But I feel terrific. The sun was gone when I awoke. I left to check my mail and was told they were serving corn chowder at Bingo. I don’t play. But I go eat the food. While I am eating at the normal coffee break table, it hails like someone dumped a large bucket of ice balls all at once. It was over in a minute or less and, of course, the sun came out.

My daughter dropped off the two younger grandkids for a few minutes and Morgan told me about the hailstorm at their place. It was just a hard but much longer. Their whole yard was covered and it looked like snow. I asked had he been outside in hail. Yes he had. Did it hurt? No, it was cool. I guess ice is cool, come to think of it. Then as only a nine-year-old boy would say, what if the hail was this big (he made a circle above his head about the size of a beach ball)? That would hurt. What is it were slushy? Well, then it might break on your head and slide of your shoulders with you standing in the muck. That would be nasty, wouldn’t it. No, that would be cool.

I have certainly moved along way from the days when I thought things like that were cool. They left a few minutes later with it raining. But before he left he pulled out a temperature gage from his pocket and announced it was 82 degrees. If it were only true.