What's the temperature where you are?

[HeiressofBickworth]

87. I'll never tell

Actually, is one of our better-kept secrets. It just SEEMS that we have rain all the time, but we don't really. In annual rainfall, we have less than a lot of other places, but we have a little lots of times rather than one or two huge down-pours. We have enough to keep the place pretty green and keep the pollens down in the spring and summer.

Back in the day, we had a local newspaper columnist, Emmett Watson (google him -- he was an interesting character), who developed the idea of "Lesser Seattle". It was he who suggested that we keep secret the real story of rain in this area in order to KBO (Keep the Bastards Out)(his term) and keep the Seattle area from over-developing. It didn't work very well.