Summer Storms

A word to the wise: always live uphill. Central Texas has been thoroughly soaked the last couple of days, but while the lower area of Fiorella's neighborhood flooded, Fio and Husband's property remained high and semi-dry. As she has told you before, Fio is wary of untamed water--rivers, lakes, the ocean.  They all seem dangerous to her.  She's a faucets, sprinkler, and swimming pool kind of gal.

Rain

When Fiorella was a little girl in Ohio, she would stand on the back porch with her nose pressed against the screen and chant "Rain, rain, go away.  Come again some other day."  And right now, even in drought-stricken Central Texas, part of her is thinking the same thing.

But the other part of her is saying "Thank you for the rain, God.  Keep everyone safe, but please fill our lakes because the long, hot summer is to come."

Amen.