Tuesday, September 28, 2010

2 Whole Days of Rain were glorious.


We were sitting in Church on a sunny Sunday morning. I dropped my one little fellow to his second grade Sunday school class and the bluejay was chirping that a storm was approaching. We couldn't see the clouds on the horizon. While in class the windows grew darker and darker and then, the downpour. Surprising, but not really. We knew that there were dark clouds coming, but, they were bringing the much needed torrents more swiftly than we are used to down here.
It took some getting used to to enjoy the sparse showers that were our weather pattern when we moved down here. A shower in this or that place and then the sun would come back to burn us. After that there was a drought and we had to pray for even a drop of rain because the reservoirs were getting dryer and dryer. I prayed and everyone did.
Lord, I want rain and I want cooler weather, if I am going to have to be here, without my family, at least send me more rain. I remembered my prayer, in my Sunday school class, as the clouds loomed lower and lower and then burst on the ground with a thud. At first, it was scary. Then, I remembered that God is my friend and my redeemer. When we got out of Sunday school the first downpour had stopped and God gave us a small glimmer, so that I could get to the car, without an umbrella and not get my purple dress wet. But, before the teenagers got to the car, the rains came again. They like getting wet. Enoch said, we are going to get pneumonia. No, you are stronger than that. A small downpour is not going to give you pneumonia. My peartree didn't like the downpour and she may not make it through the winter, by the looks of her. My weeping cherry tree, that I call Diva is accomodating my neglect and loved the rain and my brown eyed susans popped back to life from the wonderful 2 days of rain that enveloped our region. My pretty purple dress stayed in tact and didn't get a drop on it, but my teenagers were soaked{just like I like them}. Go figure?


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Title- The Studious One!

Title- The Studious One!
artwork by Elyse

Of biscuits and syrup

Of biscuits and syrup
tasty treats

Happy Saturday!

Happy Saturday!
a day at the Raptor Center.

Widdle Emmie in outer space school

Emmie jumped on the bus and off it flew out into the atmosphere. There was a set of clouds with turbulence right above the house and it took a few minutes for my Emmie to buckle her seatbelt. They hit the bump hard and it knocked my Emmie out of her seat and she bumped her head. The video camera came on and the monitor looked through and stated, Ms. Emmie, where are you? You are not in your seat. Where are you? I am alright I fell because I hadn’t buckled correctly. Well jump up Emmie we have a long way to go and you have to be buckled there is entirely too much turbulence in the stratosphere for you to unbuckle now. As soon as we are through this weather system there will be straight sailing but right now you must buckle. Emmie scrambled into the seat with intensity and purpose now. She watched every cloud pass her window and her nose was pressed to the window trying to see the top of the house as it drifted slowly out of sight. Soon they were not only out of sight of the house, the sun came out brightly and just as quickly they were putting on the atmospherical breathing apparatus and the outerspherical lights. The ABA and the OL. These precautions were to make them appear to be satellites to the radar as they were out in the ionosphere. Emmie knew all about this now. She had gone to the orientation and had a good breakfast and it took them 20 minutes for her to get out past the atmospherical pull and to feel the zero gravity. It would be 15 minutes before the gravity simulators would take effect, a glitch in the system which was being worked on. Until then, they enjoyed the couple of minutes of floatation, while being connected to the seats by belt. The first thing they saw everyday was the strataflotsam. The items which had been dumped into the atmosphere by earlier generations. What would their generation do about this ecological waste area that remained floating above their heads? This was a question for the generations. For now it was the area that they had to guide through on the way to school.

Midnight at the OASIS

Midnight at the OASIS
Sunset in Huntersville

My little Emmie

ran to the bus on the first day of the last year of school. 2 buns on the side of her head. She kissed me and ran at dawn to the bus. She was starting the adventure of a lifetime. I would never see that little girl again, she was going to woman school!

My Father and I 1989

My Father and I 1989

to the tune of Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme

A VISIT TO PAPA











Are you going to Mary Immaculate?

Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,



Remember me to the one who lived there,



He once was a true love of mine,



Tell him to buy me an acre of land,



Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,



Between the muddy Hudson in Jamaica Bay,



Then, He’ll be a true love of mine,

Tell him to sow in it seeds of pure cream,



Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,



And build Ice cream mountains and buildings of whipped cream,

Then, He’ll be a true love of mine,



Tell him to reap them with sickles of M&M’s,



Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,



And chew bubble gum and eat till we’re done,



Then, He’ll be a true love of mine.



Tell him to run it off down the motor parkway,



Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,



After your done 50 pushups



and jog down the West Side Highway,



Then he’ll be a true love of mine…

(Don’t wait for me today dad, The kids are sick again, My tummy’s bulging again, My heart is aching again, And now there’s no love there…)





He once was, a true love of mine….So, Girls, I do beg you don't miss your Daddy,Apricots, Chocolate cherries and Pie,You have one short chance to see him on this side, Go visit him and let your light shine.