The fair and industrious Trudy is painting, again. One by one, the interior walls are falling to her brush.<\/p>\n
“Can you deal with Guinness?” she asked me. “He barking right in my ear while I paint.”<\/p>\n
So I called his name using the magic word “walk” and picked up his leash, and we headed out the door.<\/p>\n
Dark clouds had been scudding across the sky all day. It had even drizzled a bit in the morning. Now it was overcast and windy.<\/p>\n
When we came to the corner where one path lead to the school and the other turned down the road, we stood for a moment. Just then rain started falling again\u2014not a drizzle, this, but a real rain with big drops that made smacking sounds as they hit the ground. We were getting wet.<\/p>\n
Guinness shook.<\/p>\n
I looked at the overhang by the elementary school and briefly considered taking refuge over there. But we took the other path instead, because we had not been that way for a long time. We walked the long way around the block as the rain came down and the street gutters filled with fast flowing water.<\/p>\n
We were soaked when we got home, but we both had smiles on our faces\u2014he for the walk and I for the rain.<\/p>\n
Frankly, that rain wasn’t even close to being enough. I know that if I were to go outside and stir the leaves at the base of the trees, the dirt would be bone dry. We need weeks and weeks of rain like that.<\/p>\n
But I’m not complaining. And neither did Guinness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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