A Rare Thing...
8/9/2020
I went out to visit my mom. It was strange, to sit apart from her on her porch, wearing masks, not hugging. I went to pick apricots. She has too many to use all herself, so I picked boxes full, for me and my sister. I went by myself, leaving the kids home with my husband, though they certainly would have wanted to come with me for the trip. We don't go many places these days. My little guy knows when I'm preparing to head out somewhere, and he will ask if he can come, too, and I have to tell him no, that it's safer for him at home, and he cries. He doesn't understand distancing very well yet. He forgets and rushes over to the person. It is too hard and stressful, so we stay home. Sometimes we'll go for a drive in the car, very rarely, but he loves it, this simple thing, something we definitely took for granted before, but now it's a special occasion to all load up into the car and drive somewhere. In some ways I like that it's turned into that. More of an adventure, a special outing.
After the apricots, there was rain and hail, and food out on the porch, and some plumbing questions inside the house. Then, on my way back home, we drove separately and parked, hiked out to the dirt mesas, the buttes on the highway into town. The sky was tumultuous and churning above us, and it soon rained down, but it was a welcome relief to the heat, and everything was dry again by the time we started back to the vehicles. Virga, sheets of 'dry rain,' rain that evaporates or sublimates before it reaches the ground.
After the apricots, there was rain and hail, and food out on the porch, and some plumbing questions inside the house. Then, on my way back home, we drove separately and parked, hiked out to the dirt mesas, the buttes on the highway into town. The sky was tumultuous and churning above us, and it soon rained down, but it was a welcome relief to the heat, and everything was dry again by the time we started back to the vehicles. Virga, sheets of 'dry rain,' rain that evaporates or sublimates before it reaches the ground.
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