I Want To FEEL The Weather

By John McLachlan

In my post Ten Romantic Reasons For Living Out Beyond the sixth reason I gave was that I wanted to feel the weather.

Being in a rural setting coupled with being on an island means the weather is always present and you are always aware of it. Hearing the waves on the shore, the wind blowing through the trees or the sound of rain on the Maples is so amazing.

We miss the subtleties of the weather when we live in urban environments. One reason is that we often work in well-sealed concrete buildings with air conditioning and we shop in malls where the need to venture outside is unnecessary. Even if we do venture outside, it’s usually to simply head from one building to another.

In the city, you have a half-dozen or so weather settings: cold, hot, sunny, rainy, windy or calm. Where I’ll be living there are myriad weather settings. Essentially, it’s possible to feel all the levels in between cold and hot and when it comes to wind, the differences are amazing.

Feeling the weather instead of looking at the weather forecast is what I’m going to like about living out beyond.