Sudden Hard Rain

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I know the U.S. is having every vagary of weather this week: snow, severe heat, tornadoes. Our weather during the rainy season in inland Mexico is pretty predictable. This rain came on quickly and with a vengeance this afternoon. Hard rain for about fifteen minutes and then departed as quickly as it came.

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My blog, which started out to be about overcoming grief, quickly grew into a blog about celebrating life. I post daily: poems, photographs, essays or stories. I've lived in countries all around the globe but have finally come to rest in Mexico, where I've lived since 2001. My books may be found on Amazon in Kindle and print format, my art in local Ajijic galleries. Hope to see you at my blog.

23 thoughts on “Sudden Hard Rain”

  1. Marion Couvillion

    Oh I could use some of that, even if it is just a little bit… the temperature has gotten up to 105 and most days it is over 100, but I noticed seven raindrops on my windshield while going to the doctor today~!😝😨

    On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 7:18 PM lifelessons – a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown wrote:

    > lifelessons posted: “Click on photos to enlarge. i know the U.S. is having > every vagary of weather this week: snow, severe heat, tornadoes. Our > weather during the rainy season in inland Mexico is pretty predictable. > This rain came on quickly and with a vengeance this aft” >

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    2. SAM VOELKER

      Ha, I was going to comment on your post; so clicked on it, but then found out I had already done so, (in 2020)~! Can’t fool me~! But “DITTO” from 20 to 22, and our “grid” is almost as bad as yours must be. My telephone land line goes out and the electric company is in cahoots with the conservative Texas government, so it goes out even in a small shower, or too many people have their thermostats turned up too high. I NEED RAIN, as needing my supply of rain water is getting low, I may soon need to take another bath~! Maybe tomorrow I will just go down to the creek with Tami~! The usual blanket flowers will not be as pretty this year., too hot and dry~! But the plus side of this is that the humming birds have fewer flowers, so they are really ganging up at the feeders on my porch.. I still have that brain damaged Cardinal bird flying into the window glass though.. Temperatures near 100, so I am spending my time inside, Tami took her segunda walk on her own and came back full of stickers~! I think that she must have gone down to the creek where she lies in one of the holes and comes back all wet. The creek water stays about 70 degrees all year due to being spring water.

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        1. SAM VOELKER

          I liked your original word that you used back then: “VAGARY”

          I think that your little Zoe is about as conniving as Tami is. Yes Tami has the run of the place and most of it has stickers about this time of the year, but actually she gets them because then I let her sit on my lap while I remove them each time.. I gave her a summer hair cut last week, because she has rather long, very fine hair and it is like a magnet to stickers and vagarious other trashy things. (there I got to use your word~!)

          Actually she usually is no farther away than she can see or hear me, but I saw her coming back from the creek this morning, not by the nice stone trail but through the weeds,,,, the little poop~!.

          Watch their little eyes, you can see them “thinking”. Yesterday Tami got every toy out of both her toy boxes and scattered them all over the house… Just to get my attention.. They keep our lives busy trying to figure out what they are going to do next~! Actually I love it~!

          Back when I was in school, I worked summers on roofs in New Orleans. At 3:00 each afternoon we would get down and go under shelter because it was going to rain.. Like Mother Nature had a clock, it rained at three each day very hard, but short.

          New Orleans has very old steep slate roofs and the old nails would rot out, slate is as slick as ice when the slip out from under you on a roof, so they hired dumb kids like me to go up there and repair them. They would tie a rope around my middle and to a chimney in case I slipped~!

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            1. SAM VOELKER

              Never all the way to the ground , HA~! Funny the risk we take when we were young. Then I went to South America full of hombres chungos and really enjoyed it even more. and later in North Africa where risk were taken often. I think you did much the same~!

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            2. lifelessons Post author

              I did. On three different occasions in my life I came so close to being murdered–twice escaping by my own wits and once by what must have been divine interference. I shudder now to think of what might have happened.

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    1. lifelessons Post author

      Yes. It did seem like a monsoon but not hot.. It actually cooled off the water enough so I could swim. The water in my pool is volcanically heated and comes in too hot to touch, let along swim. The rain just cooled it off enough so it was perfect.

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