Uh, isn't this exactly the OPPOSITE of what we've been having for the entire summer? Yes, it looks like summer will be making a short visit to my part of the country. Today, September 3, seems to be the first day of a long string of warmer-than-normal as well as drier-than-normal days. Today is expected to get into the high 70s and tomorrow the low 80s. Of course, there will be plenty of people around here who just LOVE this weather, but I have already begun to hear some whining. ("It's just not normal, it's too hot!")
Usually if we have hot weather around here it happens in August, but not this year. Now it is setting up to be a super-warm September, but that's really okay since it will cool down quickly at night. The only reason why my Canadian friends can't tell what is happening to their weather from that graph is that the Climate Prediction Center (link under the above picture) stops all predictions at the border. I'm sure they will be much hotter than normal, too.
This morning's walk with the Fairhaven group took us to
Zuanich Point Park at Squalicum Harbor. Several of my blogging friends have been showing me their part of the world in their posts, and it occurred to me that you might be interested in seeing what my new home town of Bellingham has to offer. I have certainly been enjoying my virtual travels. Usually the water in the harbor is nowhere near this calm and the skies have clouds, but this crystal clear morning I took a few moments to take pictures.
I turned around to snap a picture of two of the walkers who brought their dogs along. Around 15-20 of us (and half a dozen dogs) met at 8:00am and took a brisk six-mile walk from the Farmers' Market to Zuanich and back, and then we had coffee together. I left just before 10:00am (when the Market opens) so I could be sure to get my collards first thing. As I write this, Smart Guy is chopping and steaming them to provide us with some very tasty and nutritious greens for the week.
My bookshelf is full again. After having read all the others I bought a month ago, I headed down to the Village Bookstore with nine to return and left with four new ones. Actually, all but one of them were used, previously owned and half price. They place the half-price books on the shelves with the new ones, and if I get a choice I buy the used ones. The bookstore will buy them back as well, I've discovered. I'm currently ensconced in another Jodi Picoult book, this time
My Sister's Keeper. I thought I had read it before, but I haven't. It was made into a movie in 2009, but somehow it escaped my notice.
Hopefully you will have a safe and delightful weekend and, if you're in the US, a nice three-day weekend! Mine has started swimmingly (a half mile, to be exact) and tomorrow more skydiving, since the weather is, for once, not an issue!
:-)
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