Mother Nature Turns it On

Mother nature must have been online yesterday. She must have taken a break from enjoying the sun’s rays in her cabana chair, wandered inside to refill her fruity cocktail and stopped in to check twitter. I bet she pushed her sun glasses to the top of her head, read all of pleads for rain in Tampa and said something to the tune of “Alright already. Don’t get your panties in a bunch. I got this.” I am thinking that with a sigh and one last wistful look at the sun, she set down her drink and got to work.

Meanwhile, back at my Morningside Mom ranch, my two boys and husband were playing baseball out back (just like they always do when he gets home from work), when the winds started up. I checked the radar and heard a low rumble of thunder. Whadda ya know. I told my fam it was time to come in, we might actually get a little rain.

And rain it did. Out of the blue, the heavens opened and down poured sheets upon sheets of rain. It had been many months since I had seen anything like it. The rain drove side ways, water gushed over the sides of the house, rivers streamed down the road and over flowed sidewalks. My backyard, frontyard and sideyards were flooded. Lightening cracked directly overhead, thunder rattled our entire house and the boys laughed and screamed and delighted in it all.

At one point I peeked out my front door to find a small turtle enjoying the new pond that was my front garden. His head was cocked skyward and his mouth wide open while rain splashed down on his shell. I think he might have been a little drunk. In fact, I was quite sure every bit of animal and plant life in my yard were drowning in gratitude and already far too over served. I blipped “It’s raining men” and was quite sure the gators were disco dancing below the surface of my finally refilling ponds.

It rained and rained and rained. It slowed some, but it kept raining. It was raining when we had dinner and while we watched the Lost season finale. And then, while I was brushing my teeth before bed, I noticed that the rain was quiet. But I heard a sound I had not heard in a long long time. So I rinsed my mouth, walked to the back sliding door and stepped out onto my dark, soggy back porch. And listened. The deafening sound of peepers (small frogs) filled the air. “It rained! It rained! It rained!” Damn skippy it did.

This morning I awoke to find a miraculous scene. I grabbed my camera, slipped on my flip flops and squished my way across the back yard. I took this picture (compare it to the picture I took yesterday). Mother nature took care of business last night. I am pretty sure she had it covered all along.

God bless Mother Nature, she’s a single woman too
She took off to heaven and she did what she had to do
She taught every angel to rearrange the sky
So that each and every woman could find her perfect guy
It’s Raining Men! Hallelujah! – It’s Raining Men! Amen!

-The Weather Girls