Bring On The Rain

It's been so dry here in TN this summer than I'm surprised that everything doesn't just up and blow away! There are some curiously green knolls when you drive along the interstate, but otherwise everything is some varying shade of brown. In fact, the other day I was riding along with Thumper on the mail route, and we drove past the most pathetic corn field I've ever seen. Now mind, I wasn't too heartbroken, this coming from the girl who ever since she came out of the womb has hated corn, and mostly anything related to corn, except popcorn of course. The stalks were all shriveled and brown.

Geographically we're close enough to the coast to catch the tail end of a hurricane, but not too close where we have to take cover and board everything up. Honestly I have not been following this latest one very closely, but if I were a betting woman I would say that we are now receiving the tail end of whichever hurricane is currently out there spinning off the coast.

It started raining yesterday afternoon. I was riding with Thumper and looked up to the most beautiful cumulonibus I've ever seen. Big pillowing clouds ran all across the sky. But we need the rain, so I try not to complain even though once it gets started down here it never seems to stop, hence the winter of my Freshman year at SAU, when it rained sideways and every other way you can imagine.

Of course it started raining while Thumper was delivering the mail. Poor thing, by the time we got back to Chattanooga from Athens, he was drenched. The forecast had only called for scattered showers throughout the day, but they're never really very accurate.

It's still raining, hard. We are now under a flood watch, and so is my upstairs coat closet which has sprung a leak in the roof!