the old man is snoring

Apparently, the all time record for rain falling on consecutive days for the south coast of vancouver island is 40 in 1956. We have had rain EVERY SINGLE DAY for the past 31 days. Since last year! I'm not talking about a little bit of rain. Where i am (in a valley) we have had monsoon like rain all day and all night for weeks. I now have a large creek running through my yard and a pond out back. I think my chickens are thinking of becoming ducks. And really that would be cool because did you know that ducks mate for life? I love things that mate for life. Wolves do. I do.

Seriously though it's really hard to entertain kids inside all. the. time. Oh i know, bundle them up and go out in the rain anyway! Have fun! Get wet! Kids LOVE splashing in the rain! Well, most kids might - not mine. They might splash a bit, but then? Then! The whining. The crying. "I'm wet." "I'm cold." I want to go home!" That's about one minute after i spend twenty minutes getting them "bundled up." Oh! And bundling up? That causes whining too. "I'm uncom-ter-fal!" "I hate rain pants!"

Oh and Parker? He just says "we go outside in the sun too-pour-oh?"

"Oh yeah baby. We go out in the sun too-poor-oh."