soggy

The biggest news today is that it rained. Poured down for a good hour. It is truly about time for the rainy season to start, so it should have come as no surprise. We haven't had rain for quite a while, and many have been wishing for it. I like it just fine myself, when I can sit cozily inside and watch it. But unfortunately, today it waited until we stepped out the door to go somewhere to start raining. And boy did it come down.  We waited for a while for it to slow, but eventually just had to get to the meeting. (Remember, we drive a motorbike here.) We were pretty much soaked by the time we got there.

Other than that, a pretty good day. Had a LOT of trouble waking up this morning. Just felt SO weary. As I struggled to get myself out of bed, God asked me (at least I think it was Him) why it was so important to be up by 6. I must admit, I didn't really have anything pressing this morning. I argued that I just needed to get at things. I needed to get up and be productive. Everyone I know lives a life of perpetual busyness. I don't know any other way. But I felt Him urging me, as He did yesterday, to just rest.

So I did. I think I dozed off again, and then had some quite prayer time and devotional reading in bed. Sometime in there the cat came in and curled up against my legs. It was perfect.

And I was still up out of bed before 8.

I exercised and then ran to the restaurant quickly to check on something. Back home, showered, and ready in time for a 10:00 skype meeting. That over, did some e-mailing, went to the market and then Mr. made sandwiches for lunch.

After lunch I worked for a while to get a meal in the crock pot. I burned a few knuckles on a frying pan as I was cooking things up. Ouch. After a short break to catch my breath, we were off to that meeting. In the pouring rain. Soggy.

When I go home I went out purposefully to take photos. I haven't been conscientious about doing that recently. Got some good shots, both of things and people. But I decided on a non-people shot today. It was just too visually fun. I will continue to look for beauty in people—I am seeing it more and more—but I find so many other good and interesting shots. I don't promise to post people photos exclusively.

There is this tree by our house; big with brilliant red blossoms. I posted a shot of some of the flowers once a while ago. But today when I passed by it, I realized I hadn't really SEEN it in a good long while. How sad to walk by such beauty on a daily basis and not stop to appreciate it. I definitely noticed today. I hope I am more conscious of it in the future.

Back home, straightened the house. We had friends over for supper and a movie. It was a great visit, even though one of them is allergic to cats. We shut the kitty in the bedroom, but our visitor still sneezed a good bit, from all the cat fur flying about. We shut the cat in the bedroom, but that didn't seem to make much difference. It was a good evening anyway.

We just let the kitty out of the bedroom, though, after about 4 hours and boy is she rammy. She needs to burn off a good bit of energy before bed tonight. So I'd better get at it.