It’s been an unusually chilly spring here at Sunset; rather, I should say this year was a return to a more typical weather pattern for this area after the heat waves of the past few years. After all, there’s a reason the locals refer to this month as “Junuary”. But if you’d told teenage Maggie that she’d one day be living in a place where she was still wearing sweaters and running heaters on the last day of spring, she’s probably have laughed at you. Of course, back then I couldn’t have known that my body’s ability to regulate its temperature would vanish after my hysterectomy, because I’d never heard anything to that effect from older women in my family (probably because in south Louisiana, feeling colder than the surrounding temperature typically warrants would be viewed as a blessing rather than a problem). It certainly isn’t bothering the animals; they’re clearly enjoying the weather, and I often see them sunning themselves (or even taking refuge in the shade, like Cicero here). But I do have to say it feels very strange to be so chilly when my brain is so overloaded with daylight that I’m confused about whether to be glad because the warmest months are soon to arrive, or because we’re about to go over the hump and the days will soon begin to get shorter.
Archive for June 20th, 2023
Diary #677
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, Sunset, Washington (state) on June 20, 2023| Leave a Comment »
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