Today was a gorgeous day! I woke up to the sound of gushing torrents of rain on our tin roof at about 6am. I had to snuggle deeper into my sheet and actually had every fan in the house turned off, since it was so cold - only 25C in my room at 6am. I had to warm up some water to have a little bucket bath this morning, too, since it was just way too cold to stand under a shower of cold water!
It stayed rainy all morning - which meant that no one showed up for work until between 10 and 11am! People just don't move in the rain. Public transport doesn't move. People have huge raving rivers to cross to get out their front doors, and they get so cold when they get wet. So people just stay put when it's raining.
I didn't even make it across the compound to my office until about 9:30 this morning, either... mostly because I knew no one else would be there, and it's really hard to balance my coffee, my breakfast, my computer and an umbrella while trying not to sink in the mud. So I thought finishing my coffee and breakfast at home would be a good idea today!
It stayed grey and drippy for the rest of the day, which has already put the roads in quite a state. I was driving and doing some errands, including dropping some people off to visit a Bishop this afternoon, and trucks were slip-sliding all over the road, and there were a few puddles that I just didn't know if I would make it through. And that was just on the main road through town! I'm thankful for 4 wheel drive and that I know how to use it!
At the moment, it's 24.8C in the house, and I'm wearing a long sleeve shirt, my longest skirt covering my legs down to my ankles and my nose is actually cold. Weird, eh? I mean, who ever thought you'd get an actual cold nose at 24.8C?! Can I still call myself a Canadian?!
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I think I just heard Canada agree! They will not permit a Canadian to say they are even "cool" at 24.8C! You must say "I'm Hot, ay" at 24.8C. That's what we set our AC at here to sleep at night. But we don't have a cool season like that.
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