Sieze the Day

I've mentioned this before, but we've been having terrible weather this Spring--it's been colder, wetter, and grayer than I can remember.  I can count on one finger the number of times it was warmer than 60 in April.  (In March there were five days that reached above 60.) So you know I'm not just making this up, here are a few statements from a May 1st article in the Seattle Times:

"Seattle officially set its record for having the coldest average high temperature for April...When you combine our record chilly April with our fairly chilly March, we find that 2011 is the seventh-coldest March-April on record with an average high of 52.0 degrees."

"In addition to setting the temperature record, we were high up the charts for it being the wettest April on record. The month tallied 4.47" of rain -- good for fourth-wettest April on record..."

"While we broke a streak of 56 straight days without an official sunny day on April 23, the overall average sky cover for March and April was 80.1%."

Blech!  So why do I live here, you ask?  Besides the fact that this is where my husband has a job, where both my parents and my husband's parents live, where my children have grown up, and where many of my wonderful friends live, there are days like yesterday.  Days when a good friend calls at 8:00 in the morning and says, "It's going to be 66 today with no wind?  Can you go kayaking?"  And I look at my calendar, at first thinking I'm too busy, then realize I have to "Sieze the Day!" so I rearrange my schedule and say, "YES!  Let's go!"  And we get to see this:

That's why I live here!