Favorite rainy-day pastimes

Rainy days don't seem to matter. Yesterday it was 40 degrees, raining, and otherwise miserable outside. So a friend of mine from Haiti and I played golf. OK, sounds odd but here are the details. First, toss a four sided cover over the golf cart, next, fire up two 3,000 BTU cup holder Coleman golf cart heaters, put on light weight rain gear over Under Armor Cold Gear, and off to the races you go. The challenge is to break 100 if you normally shoot in the 80's and 90 if you normally shoot in the 70s. If this is not the order of the day there are three alternatives. First there is full court basketball. This has been a first choice all of my life. Great exercise and a truly fun sport. You get to talk story and give stink eye for a few hours and then go home and crash. Second, reading or writing. Currently working on my first non-fiction novel, first novel period, and it is fun to do late at night and like John said the creative juices flow when the weather outside stinks. Must be a genetic thing to keep us from going stir crazy indoors. And reading good books never gets old. Lastly, computer and console gaming never gets old. Never. Between the Wii and the XBOX my son and I can kill a rainy day in no time. But as mentioned earlier, rain never stops the crazy people, like me, from finding a way to entertain ourselves outdoors. Never has and never will.

I love the sound of rain. There is something about it tat just lulls me to sleep. I don't feel particularly creative when it rains. Instead I use the rain as a means of inflection. I like to watch the rain and just sit with my thoughts in meditation.

I think rain makes me emo and brings out my creative dark side :) Unfortunately today's rainy day was spent Christmas shopping so no emo-ness for me :) But I remember in college, when I lived in a dorm, we loved it when it when we'd get warm rain. Then my roommates and I would run out onto the basketball court and dance in the rain :)

Another vote for sleeping and or watching/listening the rain. The roofs are kinda noisy where I am so when it rains so it's a little hard to be creative for me. Like I try to play some guitar or ukulele and if it's a heavy rain all you hear is CLACK CLACK CLACK from the roof. Better to just sit out on the porch in a comfotable chair or go to bed and take a nap LOL.

As a child some memories of being rained in were playing board/card games with the siblings, or watching daytime tv. No, not Young and The Restless or Oprah/The View kine daytime tv, but real old school when there were a lot of game shows on like Password, Card Sharks, and of course The Price Is Right, and syndicated reruns on like Hogan's Heroes or Sanford and Son. Not a big deal now with cable TV/internet/DVRs, but these memories are also pre-VCR so it was a treat to watch these shows if you could stay home whether it was because of rain closing down school or being sick.

LOVE the photo gallery, was a thoughtful, if somewhat melancholy exhibit ... and i didn't even have to leave the house! rainy days make me glum. i worry abt having hot water (solar here and showering in HOT water is my fave thing to do on cold days) and my fingers get numb, which distracts from writing. i actually wear gloves w/ fingers cut off on days like this. brrr. must go ck the water.