What an odd, depressing summer, weather-wise.

It has been nothing but frigid days mixed with rain, rain, and more rain. And like, really frigid. And if it’s not cold outside, it’s raining. Or it’s both.

I mean, come on, where is the hot and steamy July I crave all year? Where is the warm weather that I travel for in the winter months?

This weekend was of the rainy variety. So much so that the streets flooded and people were trapped in cars and homes were wrecked. Luckily we didn’t have any flooding in our basement ourselves, but a lot of people weren’t so fortunate. It was 2 days of solid rain marked by thunderstorms and lightning, with a sprinking of sun showers here and there.

In fact, the closed the highway near my place since it was flooded over, along with several city streets.

I didn’t think we lived in monsoon territory–guess I was wrong.

A week ago we went camping with the kids to our favourite summertime locale–Sauble Beach. But wow, was it cold. We had to pack blankets galore, and long-sleeved shirts and pants and hoodies. On what normally is the hottest weekend of the summer, we froze. Very surreal. The beach was empty, the usually bustling beach-town streets were pretty vacant. Almost to post-apocalyptic proportions. I’ve never seen Sauble Beach that dead in the middle of July.

To give you an idea of how cool it was on the beach, here I am trying to look excited (though that may have been the beer).

Yeah, it was that cold that I had to wear a hoodie over a t-shirt at 2 in the afternoon ON THE BEACH!

Even sacrificing seagulls and drinking their blood did not appease the sun gods.

This coming long-weekend we’re heading back up to Sauble Beach for 4 days of camping and beach fun. I hope that the weather takes a turn for the better being that August kicks off the 2009 season on Saturday. Let’s hope.

But if not, I will not let this horrid summer weather get my spirits down–and will, in fact, drink more spirits to keep me warm.