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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

It's Raining It's Pouring

... and the gardens are not growing.

Monday afternoon we were treated to yet another rain shower. (Not the kind of shower that is a light, lovely, and pleasant rainfall, but truly a shower... like someone turned on the shower faucet overhead.) I would show you what the beginning of the shower looked like but my video skills were lacking and instead of video taping the rain, I video taped my hand, the side of the house, the door, the ceiling in the house, etc. I think I forget to push record and then when I pushed record again (thinking I was turning the camera off) I recorded all of my random movements.

Anyway, the only difference between the beginning of the shower and this clip is that initially, it was very dark outside and since the rain had only just started, the gardens didn't look like ponds yet.

Here is our afternoon shower.


And here is what B did when the rain stopped.
He had been in the basement building lego boats (maybe he had been for warned to build an ark), so when we looked out front and saw that the side walk and half of several neighbors' yards were now a lake, it was the perfect opportunity to test the seaworthiness of his vessels.
Note the depth of the water on B's legs. It only rained for about 15 minutes and prior to the rain falling, there was no standing water in the yards.

1 comment:

B & E said...

B your cousins like the boats and also the lake that you floated them in. They could use some rain here. Would you send some back this way?