waiting on the weather

I admit, I'm a bit of a weather wimp.  I don't like sitting at soccer games soaking wet (although I do). I don't drive on wintery days (especially on a school cancelled "snow day"). Extreme humidity with heat makes me cranky (and sweaty).  Really it's one of the main reasons I don't usually participate in craft festivals. From artist friends I've heard horror stories of blown over tents, art being ruined, sweltering heat, slow crowds on bad weather days. That just seems like a tough gig.

But today is a different story.  I've got an exterior mosaic installation to do this week.  Not just plopping down a finished, sealed mosaic sculpture (like Friday in the misty, mosquitoey coastal plain, aka swamp habitiat at NC Botanical Garden).  This one is a 16 sq ft mosaic at a park, requiring onsite mixing thinset cement,  carefully piecing the sections to fit, mixing and applying grout, sealing... rain is not a welcome factor.

There's a 40% chance of rain today and tomorrow,  supposed to be clear Wed-weekend...  It's sunny NOW, of course.  And I'm sure that if I don't go, it will be perfect weather, and if I do go, it will pour down right in the midst of my work.  Imagining thousands of hand cut mosaic pieces floating away is not a pleasant thought...

So, today, I'm waiting on the weather......