Post for July 7th 2012

7 July 2012

Today I played in the rain. It had not rained in so very long that the drops felt blissful as they fell. I was at an auction and it was incredibly hot, we stood in the yard and wiped sweat from our heads. Then, from the heavens it fell, and fell, and the heat of summer turned to cold shivers. I stood under the drops until I was soaked clear through my clothes and my fingers began to shrivel. We dashed through the puddles and huddled under the awning as the wind began to blow harder. It did not stop, the items for sale were blowing down the street and no one was willing to chase after them. Lamp shades and pillow cases scattered about while we laughed at how wet each other had gotten. I looked about for my husband, and I spotted him from the other side of the line of people, I waited for a lull in the storm and I ran for it. He was not there. I kept running for the car, thinking that he may have been there, but not there either. Meanwhile I noticed that my purse had filled with water and my checkbook was floating about; so I seized the opportunity to deposit the contents in the backseat. I found him on the front porch of the house, how could I have not noticed the porch before? We both took refuge here just as it began to hail!