They showed up. Loud and spectacularly windy.
We truly needed the rain. I remember one
particularly rainy August, when all my children
were quite young. It rained everyday. Our pool pass
was scarcely used, and playing outside consisted of
floating “boats” in our side yard. It was dark-ish by
three in the afternoon. The streets were always shiny
wet. The yards crazy wet. The water up to our front stoop.
Every time the rain stopped, we ventured out for a quick walk.
Our neighbor, at the time, tsk tsking us. Inevitably we got caught
in the rain more than we didn’t. We longed for dry days.
This year, all my children are well grown and do not float “boats”
in puddles. The days are dry. The soil is parched. We long for rain.
I thank God for it.
TOH to date: 664 hours and 30 min.
