TheBanyanTree: running in the rain

[NancyIee at aol.com]

It was a beautiful day.  A good day for walking dogs, for thinking  about 
mowing the lawn and doing some Fall yard cleanup and pruning. But,   in walking 
the dogs, I decided to let the rest go and simply enjoy the  weather.
 
Late this afternoon, a tiny cloud appeared. And, as so often happens in  this 
state, cloud turned into high billows, brought lightning, and no sunset at  
all. I pretended not to notice, but the dogs knew the day's end before I. They  
wanted in. They went to their beds.  They wanted to sit in my lap.
 
I finally noticed. And, when the sun was meant to go down, I dashed out to  
feed the horses, fill water tubs, settle the chickens, put the goat in. And, I  
finished all this in  a driving, blowing, noisy rainstorm. I kept thinking  
about golfers, caught out on the course in a storm, taking shelter under trees  
and getting felled by lightning. By leaping as I ran, was I putting off that  
possibility?  I doubt it, but I pretended it would help.  Leap and  dance 
through the blowing rain, the whipping trees, the crack of lightning that  made 
the horses jump. Lights flickered.  The racing rain hurt as it pelted  my skin.
 
I finished the barn chores and made a mad dash, and got soaked as I got  back 
into the house.  The dogs never even came out of hiding to greet me. I  would 
have followed the storm on the weather channel, but the power was  out.



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