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No expectations to do anything, no guilt over not going out, the rain is a free pass to stay inside guilt free Read a book or watch a movie

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

It's getting darker out sooner, too.
Love using that as an excuse to not do anything.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don't ever move to Oregon. You'd be shut in for 3 straight months

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Don't tempt me with a good time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Maybe that's not a bad thing

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It's really getting too hot these days, I want to see some rain too!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I get this. But I'm a smallholder and I also love working outside in the rain.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What is a small holder? I'm not familiar with the term

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

They hold small things, like raindrops, in their hands.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Small scale farming, we have a small flock of soay sheep, hens and grow a lot of fruit and vegetables.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Keep working at it and I know you can be a bigholder some day, champ.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Not in the PNW. We do everything in the rain! Though we don't often get the kind of torrential rain that other places do, so it's easier to deal with.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And when it starts raining outside when you prepare to go to bed. Pure bliss :)

There's something so therapeutic in the nature sound.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Indeed. Water is life. Single drops of water dripping slowly bug us cos they mean water scarcity.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a weirdo because the sun makes me genuinely depressed and the clouds and the rain fill me with joy. It has been sunny here for weeks on end, hasn't rained for more than a few minutes at a time. My mental health is slowly going to hell. I just want a rainy weekend.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You just taught me a new word and I love it!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It's raining here too, and I'm feeling exactly the same. My biggest ambition is to check my email, but I'm in no rush.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would you feel guilty about staying indoors? I have never understood that vibe. It's OK to prefer the indoors.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Extroverts and "seize the day" types are incredibly difficult to assuage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You can still go outside it there is no thunderstorm, just wear a raincoat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Sometimes I have had to go outside even when it was raining. So if I am indoors and it's raining it makes me very happy thinking that I don't have to go out and the temperature would go down a bit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I always love the way the sky looks after a light rain. Next time it happens I gotta take a picture

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to love that sound until my first roof replacement on my house. Rain is surprisingly destructive. It gently kicks my house's ass. Everytime it rains, i fear that my newborn son will inherit a disintegrated, dry rotted termite mound. [Sorry for the grimness - i said this with mostly a joking cadence in my mind] this is my first lemmy comment ftw

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As long as you inspect... let it rain :)

Welcome to Lemmy!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I wish that's what it meant for me. I've never worked a job that was called on account of rain. It just means that I have to wear a poncho and I'm going to get soaked. :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago