The Weather is Playing Musical Chairs
I think the weather all over North America, maybe all over the world, is playing a game like Musical Chairs. You know how that goes? Some music is played and everyone has to be up and out of their seats moving around. When the music stops everyone sits down right where they are. Or in another version some gifts are passed around and around in a circle while the music is playing. If one of the gifts is in your hands when the music stops, it’s yours!
It came to me last night while doing dishes, that the weather systems are travelling all over the place, and landing in the most unlikely spots. People in Florida, for instance, are having snow and frost on the oranges, while here, where we usually have the bitterly cold and long January days, we are suddenly having a mild spell with temperatures in the afternoon that are above 0 C, or above freezing! People in parts of the world that normally never see snow are having to shovel mountains of it while we have just a few inches this time.
I was talking to my Aunt Helena in B.C. last night and she says its because the weather system from Hawaii is blowing in over the ocean. It’s known as the Pineapple Express. Of course, the normal flow is that whatever comes from the west will blow over to us in a few days.
Well, I feel sorry for you if you’ve ended up with weather you don’t like, but I feel like we’re getting some sort of prize this week!
On Saturday I did some patching on my basement floor with dry mix cement. I may have to do a bit more, and then I want to press on with my tiling project from last winter. There’s only about 25% of the floor left to go.