On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Melissa Reese wrote: > On Sunday, August 25, 2002, at 10:09:30 AM PST, Kirby Stevens wrote: > > > When we were in the islands we were fortunate enough to get a stint > > of sunny weather that lasted 9 days. On the other hand we managed to > > get 7 days of miserable weather. We were fortunate to observe the > > best and the worst of nature. > > Eek...I feel one of my weather rants coming on... > > I propose that we eliminate the terms "bad", "miserable", etc. from > our weather description vocabulary, and instead look at how our own > wishes and expectations might cause us to overlook the joys and > wonders that each different weather scenario offers us. Amen to Melissa's rant. There are not bad days, only underdressed kayakers (hikers, motorcyclists, bikers, whatever). I would, though, call attention to the last sentence of Kirby's paragraph. We were similarly blessed recently in the Lofotens, although we still managed to paddle every day. -- Steve Cramer *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Aug 25 2002 - 13:29:43 PDT
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