Signs of (an Alaska) Summer

There are about 10 ways we Alaskans can tell that summer is finally about to be here:

I can almost smell summer coming. (Hamburgers. Summer smells like hamburgers.)

1. The fam uncovers the grill and hoses out the coolers.
2. The 13 coats of dirt on your car start to bother you.
3. Ladies start putting on their morning makeup in direct sunlight so they don't scare small babies later in the day.
4. The "break-up" weather has created ponds of water so deep along the sidewalks that I start wishing I knew how to swim. Just in case.
5. If the break-up "ponds" don't get you, the potholes hidden underneath will.
6. If the potholes don't get you, the maniac drivers happy to see asphalt will.
7. People rush the weather by coming outside too soon in shorts and flip-flops.
8. It's fun to watch someone in flip-flops trying to step over the patches of un-melted snow.
9. After having complained all winter about the darkness, you now grumble because the sun is up way before you have to be.
10. You finally start working on losing those pounds you won't be able to continue hiding under your winter clothes.

Peace

--Free

Weather-Bugged

I love Weatherbug. I have the app on my phone, I have the extension on my browser... Just love it. When it comes to the weather, I am always in need-to-know mode.

One of my friends lives in Sydney, Australia. I can even check out his weather when I just feel like hating him. He's always ranting about how beautiful the photos of Alaska are. Can't wait until the day he visits. I have plans to leave him on the side of the road in deep snow for about five minutes.  Not long enough for him to really hate me something awful, but long enough that he won't be so chipper about Alaska winters.

Anyway.

I am posting to talk about the glorious weather we are having. So freaking sunny, I feel like I have overdosed on happiness.

One question, though: why is it going to be so much warmer later in the day?

3 p.m. - 36 degrees...

7 p.m. - 40 degrees

But, really, do I care?

Mostly sunny and FORTY degrees on Thursday. Whoo-hoo!

Nope. Not when Thursday is looking that good. Shoot, that's practically sunbathing weather for (some of) us Alaskans. I stay covered with sunscreen myself, but, dangit, won't it be nice to feel some of that sunshine!!!

If you haven't figured it out by now, it doesn't take much to make me happy.

Let's celebrate with a song. (Change "rain" to "snow" & "gone" to "almost gone" and we've got a hit folks!)

Peace
--Free