{"id":39549,"date":"2019-10-30T16:08:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T16:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39549"},"modified":"2019-10-30T16:08:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T16:08:46","slug":"confession-of-a-weather-wimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39549","title":{"rendered":"Confession of a weather wimp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am about to admit something I have resisted admitting.<\/p>\n

I am a weather wimp. There. I said it out loud.<\/p>\n

The realization came to me this morning while standing next to the fuel pump where I was putting diesel into my big ol’ pickup. The weather is chilly. It is damp. It is dank and dark. Even in Princeton, Texas, where we thought we would enjoy a more temperate climate longer into the autumn.<\/p>\n

Oh, no! My teeth were clattering. I kept my hands buried deeply into my pockets. I couldn’t wait for the fuel pump to shut off so I could get the heck outta there, back into the truck and then back to the house.<\/p>\n

Maybe it’s a function of age. Maybe I am just getting impatient as I wind my way toward the finish line.<\/p>\n

We went through a long, hot summer. I longed for cooler days and nights. I lusted for a bit of rain.<\/p>\n

Then, boom! It arrived. With something of a vengeance!<\/p>\n

I am not going to complain too loudly<\/em> about the weather. I know there ain’t a thing I can do about it. The weather is so far out of humankind’s control it’s not even worth the gripes we lay on it. And by all means, I know that many places on Earth have much more severe weather than we get in the Metroplex.<\/p>\n

I merely am acknowledging what I’ve known to be true.<\/p>\n

I am a weather wimp who is going to start wishing any day now for warmer temperatures \u2026 and it’s not even winter yet!<\/em><\/p>\n

Please forgive me.<\/p>\n\n

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