We’ve had nothing but torrential rain for over two weeks. Our grass is so high it can’t be mown with a regular mower; we’ll have to use the tractor and the bush hog. I’ve seen other people who’ve tried to keep their grass mown, but their yards look like a weird combination of nice short grass and mashed long grass. We’ve just had no stretch of ‘dry’ that lasted longer than a couple of hours. Our lawn is several acres of hilly places, and it’s too dangerous to even try to mow when it’s so soaking wet and slippery.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
I hate it when the grass gets high. I feel as if I’m drowning. There are places in the low parts of the lawn that are mashed down sideways flat, where the ponds and creeks have overflowed. We usually see a big snapper or two in weather like this, but so far even the animals have had sense enough not to try to come out in the rain. Even the deer are huddling under the trees.
1. A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. — Frederick The Great
2. A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning. — James Dickey
3. I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day. — Lucius C. Falkland
4. I love to walk in the rain, because nobody can see my tears. –Charlie Chaplin
5. It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent. — Dave Barry
6. We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket. — George Carlin
7. Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots. — Frank A Clark
8. There’s always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. — Don Delillo
9. Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won’t feel like watching. — Fran Lebowitz
10. Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.– Satchel Paige
11. Some people walk in the rain; others just get wet. — Roger Miller
12. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. — John Ruskin
13. The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. — Hugh Latimer
14. The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
15. I’m singing in the rain
Just singing in the rain
What a glorious feelin’
I’m happy again
I’m laughing at clouds
So dark up above
The sun’s in my heart
And I’m ready for love
Let the stormy clouds chase
Everyone from the place
Come on with the rain
I’ve a smile on my face
I walk down the lane
With a happy refrain
Just singin’,
Singin’ in the rain