So no post last night.* Apparently the last few days of horrendous rain damaged the cable in this part of the neighborhood - the trucks have been around, fixing this and that. As of this evening my internet connection seems to be on again. It's funny because TV was only briefly interrupted, but the innerwebs are fussy things.
I'm slowly crawling out from under the head cold from hell.
Late this afternoon my daughter called me to say they couldn't find their pool key and already had Miss D suited up, so they wanted to use the pool here. I had not even used the pool here yet. Which meant I needed to join them - so we met 20 minutes later and walked the 3 minutes to the pool, and the sun was shining, and it was a lovely, bright, sunny late afternoon, the sky was clear and blue.
And we got into the water, and it was just perfectly lovely, and Miss D liked it. And we bobbed around for approximately five whole minutes when....
RRRUMMMBLE....
WTF?
Seriously. In the three minutes it took to walk from my condo to the pool, dark clouds raced our way. We walked the short walk to the pool and got into the water and the sun was shining, we bobbed around and watched Miss D enjoy the water, and....rrrummmblle. Okay, that seems to be moving north pretty fast, right? Other neighbors opined that it was moving away from us. (I disagreed.) RRRUMMMBBBLLLE. Okay, not moving away. We dared another 5 minutes so her parents could snap a couple of pics of First Time Swimming before it got too close for comfort. Everybody got out of the pool. We walked back to my driveway, they got into their car to leave, and by the time I got upstairs and changed the sky opened up.
On the one hand, it's nice to see the normal sort of afternoon thunderstorm. On the other, where the hell did that one come from? But the important thing was that Miss D liked the pool - this is very important to mama, who was a water baby from a very early age, and swam like a dolphin by the time she was 3.
*No great loss. It was about screaming cat, coughing and snot.
I'm pretty sure that's at least a near relative of the last cold I had. It was the worst ever for three-four days, and then it left rather swiftly - the day of my French final. I was glad to have a brain back so quickly.
ReplyDeleteAm glad Girl Baby loves the water. Such a good thing.
It sounds like Miss D had a great time, short though it was.
ReplyDeleteI remember afternoon thunderstorms, when I was five and visiting grandparents in Ohio. I've wished Cali had them, for like forever. Glad you've gotten some rain.