I think the rainy season has started with a vengeance. Driving rain, lightning that lights up the entire sky, thunder that sounds like the end of the world and Mariah-like wind whistling in around the door cracks. Frida has slunk in to be near enough to her mom for protection but just far enough away so I can’t easily reach her with the grooming brush. And––that true indication––a leaky roof. As usual, it is around the skylight far up on the dome. I had to move the couches and end tables and both the handmade paper spiral lamp you can see in the background and the handmade paper bowl I made are sopping wet. That’s okay.. they were wet when I made them, so as long as they are undisturbed, they’ll dry out tomorrow.
The ceramic vase in the shape of a woman that my friend Julie made looks askance at the sodden paper bowl. The heart shaped rocks and other precious objects it was filled with sit drying out on the counter. The rain pounds and abates, pounds and abates, but we are all safe, electricity is still on, Pasiano won’t have to water the plants tomorrow. All’s right with the world.
Am with you. We have torrential rain showers with some thunder bolts. Five minutes later the sun might appear, and two minutes later it begins to rain again. The only things benifitting from it all are the snails and my lawn. It can only get better
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Stay dry Judy, if you can.
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High and dry. Sounds like the rain has stopped and I may go for a swim… at 3 a.m. I know it is odd..We’ll see if the lightening has stopped.
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A swim? Well, enjoy 🙂
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Nope, still raining. Will try to get in a swim before the treetrimmers come tomorrow and have to cover up the pool to keep it clean while they cut all the old growth and fruiting stems and pods and fruit off the palms..So messy. So sleep for me for a few hours..
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What a charming home you have, such warm colors. Well, the rain is a bit of a setback. I hope it will stop soon, so that you can have your swim before the trimmers make a mess of the garden. 😉
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Rain hadn’t stopped by 3 a.m. when I gave up and zzzzzzzz’d. Tree trimmers just arrived. No swim for the wicked!
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I really love and appreciate how the American natives depict the thunder god. Like Navajo. Cheers Jamie.
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I have Thunderbird earrings on as I sit reading this Jamie..
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Wasn’t quetzalcoatl a thunder god too? Cheers Jamie.
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He is the god of intelligence and self-reflection. Chaac is the Mayan thunder god.
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I’ll swap you the rain for my caterpillars.
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Well, I must see photos first, Marilyn, as esthetics figure predominantly in my decision…
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Reblogged this on lifelessons – a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown and commented:
I’m reblogging this blog from five years ago. It seems like an appropriate response to the “water leak” prompt.
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We had a leaky roof every time the wind was in a certain direction. It took a few years to sort it out
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