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Oh, it looks like sun today. We have had a very long, rainy spring. For a few weeks I was feeling just plain tired of the rain and then a few days ago I had an epiphany.

My husband and I lived in Vancouver, Washington for two years and I loved it there. Everything was so green. The trees were green. The grass was green. In fact the grass was so vibrant, so alive that it felt almost like murder to mow it. The flowers were abundant and so many colors. After living in desert country for so many years, it really was a joy to live where it was so green and beautiful all the time. What made it so green and beautiful. Rain, yep, rain. The people who were natives of the area complained quite often about the rain, but my husband and I never complained about the rain because of how beautiful it was there. We learned, as most folks do after living there awhile, that you learn to enjoy life in spite of the rain. You learn that if you don't go out and go boating (with all the rain, I heard thunder and saw lightning only two times) or on a picnic or to ball games or a myriad of other activities even when it is raining that you will never go. Just plan ahead.

His folks had been there a few years earlier and when they came home, they put their house up for sale because they were moving to Washingon. Then because his mom is a person who needs lots of friends, they changed their minds. She couldn't leave her friends. I am glad they didn't leave because if they had, my husband may not have gone to the college I was at and we may never have met. While there they were astounded by the blackberry bushes that were abundant. They mentioned to someone about all the bushes and that person said, "Yes, there are lots of blackberry bushes, but you can't eat them. They are dusted with chemicals to try to keep them down." She said that blackberry bushes were almost like a weed to folks in Oregon and Washington. Can you imagine?

So, my epiphany, "Suzanne, just pretend that you are living again in Vancouver, and enjoy the rain. It is making everything here very beautiful."

So, that is what I have done for three days now. I have been pretending that I am living once again in Vancouver, Washington.

Nuff Said
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