Ask And Ye Shall Receive

It's Rainy Season!!

Just like that. The weather reports say so. The hour-and-a-half long with 60-mile-per-hour wind lightning storm last evening was merely confirmation. The rain came down in swirling sheets, blasting through the screens in the lanai and pounding against the glass doors to the living room. It was glorious (and just a little scary with the windows/doors rattling away. Even so, I had to point out to Mom that it was raining. "Is that why it's all gray out there?"

The storm knocked 22 mangoes from the tree. Then it was over--just like that--the setting sun came out and I went out to pick them up. The rabbit was out there. I explained to him what I was doing but he just sat and watched.

The weather lady promises more of the same every day for the next week at least.

The Longest Day . . .

. . .was cut short by a collection of towering, rolling, flat-bottomed thunderheads that came from the east and covered the land faster than the sun could reach the horizon. Distant lightning and muted thunder promised rain--somewhere. But then, it's done this every day for the past week and lied about the rain each time. We're supposed to be into the rainy season now.

We did finally get a fifteen minute shower which is so useless as to be just an insulting tease.

Mom has got a bee in her bonnet about trimming a bush which is growing in front of the dining room window. She says she can't see anything out the window now, which is true, but when it is trimmed the situation won't change since A.) she can hardly see anything now as it is, and B.) when the window is cleared there is nothing out there but the front lawn, the road and an occasional car going by. Nevertheless.

When I caught up with her she had the window open and was trying to remove the screen so she could reach through with a pair of scissors and trim the bush from inside. She said she didn't have the energy to go outside and do it.