”The sound of the rain needs no translation.”
The rain has come and gone for now. The thunder was way off but just enough of a sound for Nala to raise her head and wonder. Today will be fall warm at 65°.
I’m watching a great bad movie, King of the Zombies from 1941. It takes place on an island, has voodoo, zombies and a Dracula lookalike. It also has a sort of happy ending.
When I was a kid, my classroom on rainy days had almost a comforting feel. The lights were pendant lights hanging from the ceiling. They left shadows. The rain quieted us. It pelted the windows, long windows from the ceiling. I used to watch the rain trickle down the panes of glass. When the rain was the heaviest and the loudest, we read our literature books and answered the questions at end of each story. They were easy.
When I was young, I half believed in ghosts. I was open to possibilities. I never lingered by any graveyards just in case. Night noises had me on alert especially when the wind howled. My father’s stories of the hook man were real to me. I remember hearing a noise outside one night. I yelled out the door, “Who’s there?” It was bravado. An answer would have had me running for my life. When I was older, the graveyard near my house was a shortcut of sorts. I never worried about spirits, but I stayed on alert, sort of hedging my bests.
Henry is a barker. Even the smallest outside sound gets him started. He sometimes drives me crazy. I’ll open the front door and tell him, “Look! Nothing is there.” He’ll check up and down the street then back into the house. He does have an intruder bark which I now recognize. He saves that for Amazon or UPS trucks or someone walking a dog by my house. Once in a while, his bark is a bit ominous. Late at night, he’ll sometimes jump off the bed, stand in the hall and bark his scary, loud bark. I just stay in bed. I figure an intruder would not want to tangle with the source of that bark.
My dance card is uke heavy this week. I have practice Tuesday, my lesson on Wednesday and concerts on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday.
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October 14, 2024 at 11:43 pm
Hi Kat,
Rain, what’s that? We’ve had a very dry autumn. Tomorrow we will hit 90° again, but the weather prognosticator is predicting cooler weather on Wednesday.
With Election Day less than a month away, we only have two races of interest, the Presidency and a Senate seat that Ted Cruz now holds. The Democratic candidate, Colin Allred is actually competitive. Cruz not only licks Trump’s rear end, after Trump called his wife ugly in a debate in 2016. Cruz was the jackass who flew to Cancun when the big deep freeze hit the State on Valentine’s Day in 2021. Besides the temperature hit a low of -7°F we had rolling blackouts. No heat.
October 15, 2024 at 9:03 am
Hi Bob,
That rain was the first in a while. Parts of the state are in a slight drought. We could use more.
I remember when Cruz was caught at the airport heading to warmth. He made a lame excuse. Your senate race is being watched, and I do see updates on MSNBC. We are all hoping that Cruz is defeated. He is a Trump stooge because he is afraid of him.