Day Three of the Rainy Season

There is NO WAY we will ever live in the GPNW again.  NO WAY AT ALL!!!!  It started raining Sunday.  Rain here is different than rain in other areas.  It doesn’t just cloud up, rain, and then the sun comes out.  Nope – the clouds hover in the trees, sometimes it mists, sometimes it rains, then it stops for awhile, but it never clears and this goes on for days and weeks and months.  Last winter the area had four feet of rain, which was a record.

Anyway, the climate is just gruesome, I’m cold, I’m wet, and I want to be gone from this place.  I realize it would be better in a house, but what would you do all day with the rain?  Every year we get sucked in the the wonderfulness of July and August and start thinking maybe it wouldn’t be so bad…….  but it would.

This was Sunday during the day.



Today at noon.



The hedge across the street is about to start shedding leaves.



So, if we buy anywhere I think it’s going to be Tucson.  A lot will depend on what Jim can do after this surgery.

And of course the forward driver's side storage bay is leaking again.  We can't figure out how it's getting in.  It runs down the inside of the bay door and then jumps onto the floor of the bay.  The tops of everything in there are dry.  Currently we have eight large sponges on the floor soaking up water.  We go out a couple of times a day and wring them out.  I'll still end up with the shop vac removing water, but there's no point in doing that until Friday when it finally quits raining. This is proving to be a pretty good stop gap measure.  What's really weird is that it doesn't leak when the RV is washed - with a pressure washer no less.