THE PUPPY AND THE RAIN

Brigette, Joe, and Enza have a puppy! So of course we went to see it yesterday on the muggiest afternoon of the summer. As we presented Dusty with two overstuffed airplane socks and a rubber squeaker salami, we remembered how much fun it was to play with puppies! Nothing like a little animal to make humans behave their silliest, as you can see from the picture. We wore that poor puppy out as we sat indoors and watched the rain pound on Jo and Brigette’s garden, and it fell asleep under Steve’s feet.
The rain began as a bit of welcome relief from the oppressive humidity and I remembered that I left the car window open. But we decided it would not last long so we left it….and you can guess the rest. The seat was soaked by the time we left. That rain never really did stop. It rained all evening and later that night it turned into a heavy monsoon-type downpour and a thunder and lightening storm. I know because I was up at 3:30 and could not sleep for the rest of the night as I read and watched the lightening and Instant Messaged my sister-in-law Jo about the progress of my new grand niece, Miarosa.
I watched the cold gray dawn come up on a different world, no longer dry and parched from a dry summer with not a bit of rain. Of course we have a new “sand boat” to watch as we do every year, tossed up onto the sand after it slipped its mooring. Some people just have tough luck with their boats or else depend too much on the good weather lasting for too long.