Beagle Mafia

Ugh! I use to love the rain. Rain washes the outside, it makes everything clean again, makes the grass green and most importantly washes away the beagle do do. :) Rain also makes my stubborn hounds REFUSE to go outside and therefore hold their business for as long as they can before going on my floor somewhere. For my hounds that will go outside in it, makes them STINK like well wet dog which permeates my house for the day. YUCK! With rain also brings thunder and lightening also know as "boom booms" around here. Our geriatric beagle starts to shake and tremble. Off I run to break out the Rescue Remedy to calm his nerves. Not sure if it really works but it makes me feel better that I did something to calm his old self down. Rain and I have a love hate relationship.

Rain always seems to come whenever we have an adoption event scheduled so that we and the hounds get to romp around in the mud. Very appealing to potential adopters after they are jumped all over with dirty dirty paws by wet and excited dirty hounds. Least we forget how everyone needs a bath there afterward. Fun stuff! Rain rain go away leave the beagles alone to play.

Rain also forces me to wait in the dreaded car lane to pick up Capretto from school. For a 3 minute round trip, I wait in a 25 minute long line with every other compassionate parent. Of course on the way back I see the poor kids whose parents are not so compassionate walking all the way home. The mom in me wants to stop and pick them up but then the stranger danger thoughts cross my mind causing me to drive on....

I will say on a positive note, we have not turned on our irrigation system since May. One would think that our water bill would be lower but not so much.

Tonight we are off to church where we will be fed a nice Fiesta(Mexican) dinner and a nice hot Word from our Pastor. I will be serving my terrific two year old's who I have not seen in a few weeks. I am eager to get back in the classroom and minister to my babies. Our Pastors laid hands on all the teachers on Sunday. Expecting a new mantle of ministry to come upon me.

He covers the sky with clouds, he supplies the earth with rain,
and maketh the grass grow on the hills.
- Psalms 147:8