Damp

Akron receives the same amount of rain in a year that Seattle does. Cleveland receives more than Seattle. The wettest month of the year here is July. We are inside out. In the NW we were used to wet winters and dry summers. Here we have dry winters and wet summers. Our backyard is reverting back to its frog pond days (the man next door who has lived in the neighborhood since before most of the houses were built told us that it used to be a frog pond). It has rained nearly every day since June 1st.
There has been alot of rain in the last week, so much that our basement is taking in some water too, which is unusual. Usually the backyard is a pond, but the basement is dry.
Jan and Alec got to go camping this last week, in between rainstorms. They had really good weather and so much fun they will never stop talking about it. Steve and Heather, who work with David and go to our church, took them in their VW camper bus. They ate smores and fished (Alec caught 10) and swam and tubed behind a boat and hiked and ate hot dogs and lemonade and came home utterly exhausted. It has been fun to hear them tell stories about it.
Pati got sick while they were gone and last night Alec and Anne got it. They are spread out in the living room with fevers...but no throwing up...yet.
I think that when they all go down for naps Jan and I will put on some wading boots and try to help the backyard drains. We are growing some of the biggest mosquitos I have ever seen back there!