What is your favorite rainy day activity

[handy]

Now that Fall is here, things are cooling down swiftly. We are almost 30 degrees cooler than we were last Saturday.

I've spent the day doing three things: posting here, cooking for a supper we are going to later this evening and putting together a jigsaw puzzle.

On cold days I like to do things like make stew and biscuits and curl up in front of the fire and read.

What are your favorite rainy/cold day activites?

 

[jasoncran]

Now that Fall is here, things are cooling down swiftly. We are almost 30 degrees cooler than we were last Saturday.

I've spent the day doing three things: posting here, cooking for a supper we are going to later this evening and putting together a jigsaw puzzle.

On cold days I like to do things like make stew and biscuits and curl up in front of the fire and read.

What are your favorite rainy/cold day activites?

sleep or stargate marathon or play video games.
jason

 

[justvisiting]

On cold days I like to do things like make stew and biscuits and curl up in front of the fire and read.

Do you do airmail?

You're making me hungry. That sounds good.
I just stay out of the cold. Do internet. Watch TV. Basically make like I'm doing something.

 

[stovebolts]

Well, since it's cooling down, my favorite thing to do is go running!

It was supposed to pour out this morning, but instead we got a light drizzle and I want to say it was in the high 40's. It was wonderful!

The nice thing about running when the weather cools down, is that you can go faster for longer, which really, really feels good.

This may sound odd, but I also like to split wood when it's cool out. I'll split about 8 full cord by the time it's all said and done and yes, we have a log spliter :D

As far as rainy days, I can't say that I really enjoy them... must be a throwback from growing up in Washington :biglaugh Just kidding, I lived on the East side of the state ;) Really though, my favorite rainy day activity is just curling up on the couch reading a good book.

 

[Caroline H]

I am absolutely a rain lover. My favourite thing to do is just brew a pot of PG tips and sit outside (if it's not too cold) and watch the rain come down. Honestly, I am really tired of these Georgia summers...I look outside some days and just wish that aggravating sun would just go away and bring me some cooling rain! :yes

 

[sheshisown]

Heya Jeff and Dora and Jason and Caromurp~ and Justvisiting too! :waving

Rainy days... rainy daze? My FAVORITE kind of day is a rainy one... God knows. The clouds come rolling in all beauitful and grey... making the sky grow CLOSE and wet before a drop falls. Then~ a deep rumbling like a chord held onto in the bass piano range............ mounts inside the mind. Rumbling and soon enuf~ flashing! AH! We can see some tropical storms <only once in a blue moon thou> out here. I LOVE EM'! Finally the patter of lovely drops falls sweetly down, and grow into a torrent, making streams and rills in gardens and refreshing everything it touches. :nod

I love to write when it rains and eat slow cooked spagetti sause filled with spicy meat balls. With crackling garlicky bread. OH YUM...

Last winter (that's really a joke out here in the desert) I wrote this:

Rainy Awakening

She heard the drops of water tapping and splashing as they slipped from the edge of her patio roof to the well soaked ground below. A kind of quiet wakefulness stirred her. The small noise had tiptoed into her thoughts as she lay dreaming on her pillows. Slapping and sloshing, creating a din now, the rain drumming and thrumming the ground and the house with its pellets.

“It’s wet outside.†She let the thought waken her.

Now little river torrents began in eddies to flow in her ears. In her minds-eye she saw shinning droplets produce and swell, each releasing its hold and unevenly drop off the patio roof, it was made of tin. She had always thought, unreasonably enough, that the rain liked hitting it because the tin pronounced its falling and arrival in such declaration, as if it were something royal.

Praise the Lord for rain... ~shesHISown~ :heart

 

[justvisiting]

This may sound odd, but I also like to split wood when it's cool out. I'll split about 8 full cord by the time it's all said and done

I was starting to picture Rocky there...

and yes, we have a log spliter

 

[handy]

We split wood this time of year as well. It's a whole family activity. (Yes, we have a wood spliter as well.)

I almost forgot my other fall/cold day activity. Watching my favorite guys, the BSU Broncos kick collegiate football booty. Go Broncos!

 

[JoJo]

I love rain. One of my favorite childhood memories is waking up on Saturday morning to a gentle thunderstorm and my mom cleaning house, singing to the Lord as she went along. She loves rain too.

I am absolutely a rain lover. My favourite thing to do is just brew a pot of PG tips and sit outside (if it's not too cold) and watch the rain come down. Honestly, I am really tired of these Georgia summers...I look outside some days and just wish that aggravating sun would just go away and bring me some cooling rain! :yes

I love to sit outside in the rain too. It's sprinkling here now and I just came back in from sitting on the porch. Got kind of chilly to stay out there!

 

[Lance_Iguana]

I love to read, draw, and listen to music. I'll play music as well if I feel like it. Nothing like listening to ambient music while rain is pelting your window.

Curled up in a blanket with Blut Aus Nord in the background with a sketch book in hand is pure extasy for me. :yes

 

[westtexas]

Is it football season when this rainy day happens??

Westtexas

 

[handy]

Is it football season when this rainy day happens??

Westtexas

It certainly was here today, westtex, and my Broncos showed the UC Davis Aggies whatfor 34-16 tonight at Bronco stadium. It truly wasn't the Bronco's best game and Coach Pete was a little disappointed in the fact that the boys couldn't score inside the 5 yard line. But, Broncos still remain undefeated, keeping BCS bowl game hopes alive.

 

[jasoncran]

in florida and georgia there as strange phenomon called rain on side of the street and dry on the other side. sunshine state huh! more like rainy summers. we have droughts and fire in the winter and the torrential rain in the summer, my grass will die soon :shades , no mowing for me, yet the bad thing my banana tree will go with that if i dont water it daily..

jason

 

[Caroline H]

Haha Jason! I know exactly what you mean. We had that last week, where it rained in patches down the street, and all the while the sun was shining brightly. Those rains don't really count to me because it's still sunny. When I see rain I want it dark and dreary all day...all week if I can get it

 

[jasoncran]

Haha Jason! I know exactly what you mean. We had that last week, where it rained in patches down the street, and all the while the sun was shining brightly. Those rains don't really count to me because it's still sunny. When I see rain I want it dark and dreary all day...all week if I can get it

careful now a hurricane could come and oblige that one!

jason

 

[sheshisown]

:waving
Caromurp~

I'm with you... let the darkened and dreary days come. To me, there is something VERY cosy about cold outside and warm inside. :D

Let the fury blankets and quieter moments of Fall and Winter set in, soon.

I live in the desert~ and am parched and ready for this time of year... :nod

Thank You Father, for the rain and Your bow in it.
sheshisown~ :heart

 

[handy]

Haha Jason! I know exactly what you mean. We had that last week, where it rained in patches down the street, and all the while the sun was shining brightly. Those rains don't really count to me because it's still sunny. When I see rain I want it dark and dreary all day...all week if I can get it

careful now a hurricane could come and oblige that one!

jason

We live on the side of a fairly steep hill heading up into the mountains. In fall and winter, we are at the "snow line". There have been times when it's snowing like crazy out in our back yard, and sunny in our front yard. Weird but true. The kids hate it when I look out the back window before school and make them put on their snow things, only to get to the bottom of our driveway and find that there is no snow below us at all. :D

But, I too lovethe dark and dreary days. We are having one today, it's cold, somewhat rainy and foggy outside. We are watching classic swashbuckling movies from the 50's and working on that jigsaw puzzle. There's a fire in the woodstove and a pot of hot water for tea keeping warm on it.

 

[jasoncran]

snow is evil! i've seen it unlike most floridians that are born in the state. fun to do to snowball thing and the angels, but the days of not feeling toes, and limbs. the army ruined that as when it snows we stay in it, roll in it, run in it.

nevermind the snowshoveling and the plowing the road, the salt eats under carriage like you wouldnt believe.

jason

 

[stovebolts]

Rainy Awakening

She heard the drops of water tapping and splashing as they slipped from the edge of her patio roof to the well soaked ground below. A kind of quiet wakefulness stirred her. The small noise had tiptoed into her thoughts as she lay dreaming on her pillows. Slapping and sloshing, creating a din now, the rain drumming and thrumming the ground and the house with its pellets.

“It’s wet outside.†She let the thought waken her.

Now little river torrents began in eddies to flow in her ears. In her minds-eye she saw shinning droplets produce and swell, each releasing its hold and unevenly drop off the patio roof, it was made of tin. She had always thought, unreasonably enough, that the rain liked hitting it because the tin pronounced its falling and arrival in such declaration, as if it were something royal.

Praise the Lord for rain... ~shesHISown~ :heart

Wonderful writing!
If I had to write something about rain, it would probably sound something like this...

The sky was grey as the heavy clouds moved slowly across the sky, lingering just above the tips of the tall and majestic pine trees. He gazed out the window trying to make out the the shape of the old apple tree he once enjoyed climbing just weeks ago before the rain set in.

He had tried climbing it just two days after the rain started, but the bark was slippery and his hands, numb from the cold and rain couldn't clasp onto the branches that he knew so well. It was like the branches were betraying him, or was just as frustrated with the rain as his soaked tennis shoes slipped on the once stable branches until at last, the driving rain won the battle, and the boy fell to the muddy ground in agony.

As he slumped toward the warmth of the house defeated, he could hear his mothers calm and soothing voice from the porch as the tears began to fall from his cheeks, only to be lost in the puddles below his feet.

At times, the rain would let up just enough to make out the smaller branches and hope would set in, only to be disrupted by a sudden clash of thunder as the rains poured down again hiding the tree from site...


Have I ever told anyone how much I love SPRING

 

[sheshisown]

Jeff~

You are a well of talent aren't you?

The sky was grey as the heavy clouds moved slowly across the sky, lingering just above the tips of the tall and majestic pine trees. He gazed out the window trying to make out the the shape of the old apple tree he once enjoyed climbing just weeks ago before the rain set in.

He had tried climbing it just two days after the rain started, but the bark was slippery and his hands, numb from the cold and rain couldn't clasp onto the branches that he knew so well. It was like the branches were betraying him, or was just as frustrated with the rain as his soaked tennis shoes slipped on the once stable branches until at last, the driving rain won the battle, and the boy fell to the muddy ground in agony.

As he slumped toward the warmth of the house defeated, he could hear his mothers calm and soothing voice from the porch as the tears began to fall from his cheeks, only to be lost in the puddles below his feet.

At times, the rain would let up just enough to make out the smaller branches and hope would set in, only to be disrupted by a sudden clash of thunder as the rains poured down again hiding the tree from site...


Have I ever told anyone how much I love SPRING

Have I ever told you how much I love FALL?

BTW~ were YOU the boy in this senerio? I have numerous incidents and events that I have written about my past. I love to read writing ~ when the words bring beautiful images so clearly to my minds eye. I have an excellent imagination, and this is a sweet way to employ it. Thank you~ for sharing with us.

~ Bonnie :shades