Oh, look! It’s NOT raining!

This afternoon, I shared the photo above on my personal Facebook page and Instagram, and the headline of this post is how I captioned the photo. It shows, of course, the tree on my street that stars in so many of my photos. It’s still putting on its summer clothes, and I’m so very ready for it. The weather has been pretty awful lately, so I also said: “But first, back to our regularly scheduled Spring programming: Rain and more rain.” I wasn’t kidding about that.

It rains a lot during New Zealand’s Spring, though not necessarily every single day, of course. Lately, however, we’ve had a lot of rainy days that included heavy downpours (including yesterday, when I went to the Waikato Home & Garden Show). That;s not going to change any time soon. Take for example today’s 10-day forecast:

Despite how it looks, right now only Wednesday and Friday are expected to not have at least some rain. Actually, aside from those two days, right now there’s expected to be rain at least part of every day from tonight through to Tuesday, October 14. Oh, well—I guess it’ll give me time to get some inside stuff done.