Then & Now: Summer

Those days of "nothing" are usually spent doing projects that have been put on the wayside, or cleaning or the likes. Summer can get pretty busy!

No Storms Please

I do not enjoy big storms. The wind is what frightens me. I've been through a few bad storms that have had a lasting effect on me (though I don't know that anyone else in my family is particularly afraid of storms.) Lately we've been having a lot of really bad storms, the kinds that come with warnings to take cover, and the result is that I will wake up in a rush at 3 or 4 am to quickly check the radar and weather alerts. Or I won't let myself fall asleep because I'm listening for oncoming thunder. Not intentionally mind you, just in that stupid space between dreaming and awake.

Somebody's Excited

Akela loves being in the car, but doesn't like it when the car is moving, so he whines a lot. I've been working on it with him, and he doesn't scream as much as he used to. Until he realizes where we are. Then he screams like a teenage girl who's celebrity crush just responded to their tweet.

"Dirty Jokes"

Looking back, I don't think I actually knew what constituted as a "dirty joke". I was pretty oblivious to most things.

Gooooooob Morning

Akela wakes up early, checks on who's awake, and then goes back to bed.
I get woken up early by Akela, then I go back to bed, then wake up to go to work and feel very tired!

Wild Rabbit

Maybe not the funniest comic, but this incident often haunts my mind when I look back at my childhood memories of being at The Lake.
The rabbit PROBABLY wasn't quite that big, but I was around 4 years old at the time, so it sure seemed big.
The end result of this encounter was that I thought I could pet it, but as soon as I reached out to the rabbit, it hightailed it outta there!

Demanding Imagination

It's like a constant nagging to get it down on paper, quite often at the most inopportune times!