Transplanted City Girl

• Friday, July 7, 2006 - What a week!

Well, I of course know I should have updated long ago, but we had no Internet.  Not to mention that I just haven't felt like being around a computer.  Weird, huh? We've had a lot of rain lately, which is a good thing.  Granted, it tends to come down fast and hard and cause a lot of damage, but all winter and spring the entire town has been moaning about how dry it was.  Funny how many of them are now moaning about the rain.  I loved it, though.  As soon as I hear the thunder, I put towels in the windows and baskets of dirty laundry under the other leaks, and I'm all set! The Fourth of July was wonderful.  See, it was on July 4th of LAST year that I said goodbye to Chris and flew home, and we didn't see each other again until a week before the wedding.  And we were both rather depressed at this time last year. This year was wonderful in its extreme contrasts to the same time period from last year.  Chris and I did our own dinner, with just the two of us.  That morning Chris and his brothers made at least two trips into town for fireworks.  We had gone almost every evening in the days leading up to the 4th, but then they'd come home and promptly set off everything they'd just bought!  We have had some very bizarre and hilarious evenings around here as the guys make fire kites, engage in fire-cracker wars and shoot bottle rockets in some... accidental directions.  But anyway, on with the story.  I didn't go to town with them because I've been really sleepy lately, and I needed to sleep that morning.  So, by about noon they were satisfied with the fireworks they had, and rejoicing because the fire-ban had been lifted so the fancy fireworks at the park were still on for the evening. So, Chris and I had our fancy meal at about three, then we just napped and talked for a few hours, milked early and then headed down to the park.  We were going to take the car, but then it started raining, so I begged Chris to let us ride, and he did.  It looked like quite a storm was coming, so we grabbed our rain jackets and were barely out of the driveway before it started pouring.  It was so incredible!  I love the rain.   Anyway, everything not covered by the raincoat was just dripping by the time we got to the park.  And our shoes made squishy noises all evening, and Chris kept saying only a crazy woman would beg to ride in the rain when she was 81/2 months pregnant.  But he did it for me, and it really was fun!  I had my sweatshirt on so I didn't get cold or anything.  And the fireworks were really quite good, and I got all the watermelon I wanted because I was pregnant, and snow cones are really quite good.  Unfortunately neither one of us was allowed to bungee jump, because they don't let pregnant women do it and Chris was too heavy.  It was a pretty small setup, though. Wednesday it was back to work for Chris, and I've been trying to get and keep the house clean since then.  He will have this Saturday off, which is just wonderful!  I do get a little lonely when he works 6 days, and lately I've just been too tired to go to work with him. Well, I have a few things that need returned to the library, and I want to ride down there before it gets too hot.  So, I'll try to update again before long, if our internet stays accessible.

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