Normally people WALK where you see water. Now it’s for ducks!
Well, mama says our little town has a new river coursing through it after such heavy rains and it’s really very exciting, the waves breaking over the walkway around our town’s chateau and little kids leaping out the way of the waves and mama sloshing right through them in her boots just like a kid. She says that’s one of the great things about being an adult–you can jump in puddles and run with scissors and go to sleep when you like and not eat breakfast at all if you don’t like and you can take baths because you WANT to, not because you HAVE to, and today was a grand day for puddle jumping.
Mama’s aunt wrote her that there was some guy on the internet mentioning that he had seen a guy with a long grey beard building something that looked like an ark, so they must have had lots of rain where they live, too. We needed a rowboat to cross the river formed by the run-off from the mountains behind our little town. One year mama looked out her window and a CAR was floating by and continued its journey all the way to the sea!
There it floated on the waves until someone rescued it. No one inside, thank heaven. And on another day, mama was walking along the run-off path behind our house–a deep tunnel closed with grills to allow water to go in and down, and in the tunnel she heard a myow, myow and a little kitty was under the grills looking for a way out. So mama led it down the street and toward where the tunnel channels its water to the sea and at the opening the little kitty ran out and home, I hope. But what if it had poured rain just then? Oh, boy.
And then there are mama’s relatives in California praying for a few drops of rain for the vineyards and the farms because there has been a drought for ages. I wish we could send them some of this water! I was pretty scared yesterday and hid under the curtains when it got so loud.
It’s just water, mama said. Oh, yeah?
That’s a lot of water, Loulou! It’s so strange how Mother Nature works…giving some areas too much water and others not enough.
But if you guys are on an Island, you have water all the time!!!!
Kind of like the Salt River that runs through Phoenix, AZ. Everyone laughs at the dry riverbed until the melting snow in the mountains sends a flood of water down the river. One would think with all the dismal rainy days we’ve had here lately, the ground would have been soft enough to dig in the clay.
Oh, Jan I could have helped you dig because every morning I dig, dig, dig for my morning ablutions and I could just keep going to help you there.
Crikey Loulou! Your town is deluge-tastic! Looks a bit scary to us, you are wise to stay under the curtains. The apes always worry about stray animals during big rains. We have a little cat shelter in our garden that’s cosy and dry, it gets used too, currently by a large orange pusscat
Stay dry Loulou!
Luff Mungo & Jet
Would that be large, orange and named Mungo?
I’m a sort of tuxie Loulou! I don’t even have an orange cat onesie to disguise myself and the food is only put out at night for him and I am shut in then pfft!
Orange kitty isn’t actually the target of the ape’s trapping adventures. Orange kitty is owned we think. The ape is still attempting to get a stray/feral tabby, who is a mess to come to the garden to feed. The garden is on one of his patrols, but he disappears (sometimes for months) hunting for ladycats. He really needs help, but the lure of other toms to fight and ladycats is just too great.
Sigh
Mungo xx
Oh, I hope you find help for that orange kitty. Mama had one called Fiat because she found him in the Fiat company and they didn’t want him around. He was a doozy and mama loves orange kitties so maybe he’ll come our way to OUR garden and I can say hello.