Rain has a catch 22 quality about it to me. We, as in the grand ole state of NC that I live in, need rain pretty badly. We tell each other, in casual conversation, that it needs to rain, and it needs to rain every day for months to stock back up on our water supply. In June, the grass in the frontyard of every home in my development looked brown and really almost dead. Flowers looked wilted everywhere, even the trees looked wilted. Not at all the summers I remember from childhood. Anyhow, we knew we needed rain, and lots of it. Well, now we are getting that rain. Every day, and I sit and look out the window now, wishing it would go away so I could take my baby out to the pool. Every afternoon now I hear the telltale sound of thunder and I know that we will be stuck indoors again this evening. Summer just doesn't seem to be what it used to.
9 years ago