Raining Buckets

The weather around here has taken a strange turn of events. It's been raining and pouring and raining some more. Now, please don't mistake this post as complaining. I'm not. I love the rain. I love how it sounds and smells, I love thunder and lightning and I especially love what it does to the vegetation -- make it grow BIG and GREEN! The only exception to my love of rain is when I'm in it... (Unless it's on purpose. Like the time I made Owen dance in the pouring rain with me. Only problem with this great idea was that the rain was ice cold! After about two minutes in it I begged to go back inside. It was fun anyway. And we have a wet and soggy picture so we can always remember this memory.)














The cute (dating) couple after the rain

...Nothing can turn a great hair day in to a horrible one quite like a good drizzle from above. But in any case, I've enjoyed all the recent rain. It's been going for about two weeks and the forecast says it should continue. And we definitely need it!

One funny thing about all the rain we've been getting is how much it's making the grass grow. Owen has had quite the struggle keeping the lawn looking nice. He usually mows on Saturday, but it was raining and the grass never had a chance to dry out enough to get cut. Then when he mowed on Monday, the grass had gotten so long that he had to go back and bag it. This process took him two days because it just kept raining. Then, the grass was long again today...so he mowed again -- and he still had to bag it because it was super long again. Poor guy is gonna end up mowing every other day just to keep up! But at least it is making everything beautiful.