Was wakened shortly after 01:00 this earl morning to answer the call of a very full bladder… That’s when I became aware of the fact it was raining…… not hard, but raining….. a welcome sound. Even here, on the ‘wet’ end of the island, everything is already brown and burned up (one of the reasons I have not mowed in over 2 wonderful months)…. but we really needed the rain….. so I took the pressure off of my bladder and then laid back down and fell asleep to the sound of the rain. It picked up enough I could hear it over the noise of the air conditioner. For the next several hours, I stirred ever so lightly and came out of my sleep induced fog occasionally to realize that it was raining again…. some times really hard~! Again, that’s okay…. we really need it… the whole island really needs it. Rousted again a little after six by the same pesky bladder….. I rolled out quietly to the still consistent sound of a decent steady rain on the roof. It continued……. through breakfast….. through my trip to mid island to drop off a needed flash drive to ‘the boss’. It rained hard enough at one point, it brought traffic to a stand still. You couldn’t see enough to keep driving, the wind shield wipers could not keep up. It was right in this time frame…. I discovered, several, new places that my truck is leaking……. dammit Emmit. By the time I got to my destination…. I was sitting almost ‘side saddle’ in my seat to keep from being dripped on. Dammit Emmit~! So- more work to be done on my truck. Even if I would have got back in time from my errand running……. my parking spot is about 6″ deep in water, so I waded to the back door and eased on into the house. Leak repair will have to wait for a dryer day.
Electricity went out, while I was out and about and was still out when I got back. My Bride and I sat and chatted about the day, until it finally came back on. It was out for about 4+ hours….. a little longer than usual. Now that it is back on, all the fans are going and it it is much more tolerable in the house. My Queen fed me some left over spaghetti [ it was delicious] and now here I am. While chatting with the boss – I found out I am diving tomorrow…… Won’t go into details, but the boss felt like I needed to be on the boat for these two dives in the morning….. so– I’ll take another day off somewhere else…… I’m just thankful to have electricity to get my batteries charged up.
Good Night Y’all _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Thankx for stopping in~!
