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Weather is dramatic......we in the midwest, have had 3 hurricanes come drifting up from the south and dumping copiouse amounts of rain on us. Besides growing mushrooms between our toes, trees are apt to topple at any time from the slopes along the roads, ditto service line poles. Basements, houses,public buildings, roads, creeks, streams and rivers are flooded as are the fields nearly ready for harvest. Those farmers who have planted in the bottomlands will turn in crop insurance this year.
After 3 days of steady downpour all the birds have disappeared and all out door animals look soggy if not muddy. 2 days ago a deer strolled past the window looking kinda bedraggled and was missing that alert look they usualy have..if she was looking for the usual backyard-under-a-thick-leaved-tree dry place to lay down she was going to be disappointed as there was a new creek running back there.
The house drains stoped draining as the field tile they go into was full up...so one washes in a bucket during those times and throws it out the door just as it was done a hundred years ago by others that lived in this house.
The parrots all viewed the rain differently the first day....the two conures are different varieties of the same species but have the same bird word for rain and running water, a kind of high pitched short trill we heard everytime from our shoulder as we stood at the door and watched it come down. The cockatiel spent her time puffed up on top of her cage semi napping most of the daylight time. She showed energy only when the light switch was flicked on in the evening. Molly dog kept waiting for another lightning strike like the one that hit us a month ago. Man's best friend hid behinde my legs a lot figuring if it was out to get her it would hit me first. i didn't mind so much but it did make bathroom trips tricky.
Didn't realise how dim these 3 days have been until i walked outside and realised i was squinting in the bright sunlight....the rain fairy must have taken pity on me because soon it clouded up and rained again. Dam rain fairy does not listion to weather reports i guess.
But the moon is out now, full and fat...right purty shining on that new lake east of the driveway, and the sumpump swishes merrily away.
signed
the swamp yeti
