Rain, Rain, Go Away....or not!

This is an addition to the morning post...I guess we are never happy. The rain stopped, but now it is 91 degrees outside..Whew!
Hard to work in this heat.I'm soaked...and not from rain! Now I'm in for the day.
Rain, rain, go away....Balisha wants to play. I am looking out my rain spotted window and can see the wild gardens. The inches of rain that have fallen have made things look like a rain forest. I have never seen such lush foliage. Rain drop pictures are pretty and this one I loved. It wasn't taken by me, but I wanted to use it here. My childhood memories are often about rain. Wading in puddles after a storm, using a new umbrella and twirling it in a puddle. Taking one to grade school and popping it open and shut in the cloakroom to get everyone wet. Putting on swim suits and running in the rain.

I remember one time buying a yellow raincoat for my Cocker, Maggie. We put it on her and she went sailing through the house with the coat dragging on the floor. She acted like she had a bee on her bottom. She wanted that thing off. It was never used outdoors.

The rain gauge is a big thing at our house. Every inch of rain is measured carefully. We must know how much rain we got. Then various emails come to our computer telling how much rain friends and relatives got. We seem proud that we got the most.

Hopefully the rains will stop and we will be able to get the lawn mowed, flowers deadheaded and fertilized, weeds pulled, birdbaths filled etc. Oh, my....what a nice thing...a rainy day. We can forget all that work and just read, watch TV, knit or just look out that rain spattered window and think about all the work that we must do tomorrow.

Balisha