Shelter for a storm
It rained. LOUD.
Don’t you just LOVE loud rain?
Anyway, I’d put up my handy-dandy $59.95 Ozark Trail 4-Person Instant Dome Tent (see above) a couple of days ago, so i’d have a place to vacation. I bought the thing probably eight years ago, and I can put it up by myself in less than five minutes, thankyouverymuch.
Anyway, I obviously put it up just in time.
The sheets of rain started whipping down and I was ready: grabbed some blankets and some stuff to read — “Siddhartha” and “In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe,” (because who knew what kind of mood the deluge might insp
ire) — and ensconced myself inside my little flame-resistant nest.
The sound of the raindrops, each one it seemed, banged a little harder all around me. The birds sang, and a white-throated sparrow hopped closer to see what was going on (like when you’re on a Jeep on a safari, you become part of the vehicle and the animals don’t worry about you).
I did find a couple of, um, small leaks in the tent.
They were dwarfed by nature’s 360-degree rainshow.
Another COVID-kinda day….
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