#rainblr

I’ve always loved the rain. I see why they use it in movies after someone dies.

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Thank fucking Thor.

Living on a farm means seeing this and feeling like it’s Christmas at age 8 again.

Thunder also didn’t let me sleep but whatever, it hasn’t seriously rained in like three weeks, and now the corn might actually live to maturity. Hell yeah. Fantastic start to the day.

Rainy mornings and the breakfast croissant run.

Some rainy day New Orleans soup dumpling seeker pics by @jbrightraven and I

What if I just decided to quit everything and become a rainblr or stormblr hmmm who’s to stop me from only posting aesthetic photos and videos of rain

Yesterday was a struggle to say the least. Coming off the 4th night shift I felt hungover-ish but when I’m off of my last shift I always feel excited to be finished so I tend to not want to sleep. Not sleeping is always a bad idea but sleeping too much is equally bad because then I’ll be up all night and when my day shift comes back around Wednesday I’ll feel like complete garbage waking up at 3am. Despite grogginess I managed to get up fairly early and worked all day on the yard. Honestly it wasn’t a days worth of work but I was allowing myself to move slower than I normally would recognizing I hadn’t slept quite enough and it’s definitely moving into the Louisiana hot/humid season and I’m not quite acclimated yet.

Feels dorky to track my mowing mileage 😂 but it’s definitely a workout !

Despite it all it was a very good day and I think the time outside put me in a really good mood.

Saw this dood catch a snack on one of my many extended breaks. I felt like I sweated half my body weight out there. I guess a mild suffering will be the name of the game for this summer’s running.

Right after finishing up @jbrightraven and I decided to hurry up and run to the grocery store for supper stuff before the impending thunderstorm blew all the way in.

We managed to beat the rain shopping so we were able to enjoy the rain at home without the pressure of running around in it (I can’t lie I do love a good thunderstorm in the evening!!!!).

And what can make an evening thunderstorm even better? The drizzly rainbows.

If you zoom in on the 2nd rainbow you can see a bald eagle that was hanging around my neighbors yard flying over the trees.

I was tagged for a selfie by the super cool @pr0teinprincess but instead I’ll use the pictures Jayne took of me. Catch me post night shift, post lawn mowing, dirty and drenched in sweat drinking a beer in a drizzle under a rainbow ~ that just how we’re trying to live over here!!

And to continue the positive vibes here’s the damsel fly I rescued from the rain yesterday and the sunrise from this morning

Anyways hoping all of you out there are having a good start to your week!!!

soft pants couch nap or nappy friday imaginary constructs

Had some storms yesterday. Apparently it was enough to:

• Dislodge an air mattress I had drying over the railing
• Blow off the cover for our deck furniture and soak it, preventing us from hosting some guests later in the evening
• Knock a hefty branch loose and onto the garage

The scene outside, 20 minutes ago.

• There are definitely different types of rain that might be based on the color of the sky at the time the showers occur
• The soft, light grey days
• Dark grey-blue nights with billowing, threatening clouds
• Dark blue where it’s almost like there are no clouds at all because the sky is covered completely by these near texture-less clouds
• Nighttime rain, black rain, where you probably don’t even see it because you’re asleep before you really hear the rain at all
• Early morning rain where damn it! you just missed it… it’s gray, but it’s different. Maybe the sun’s starting to rise but no yellow or orange has really hit yet, maybe it’s still dark and right when you get to your destination, the sun’s puddle-y reflections blind you. You look back at the sun and see it hitting past the far away mountains, perhaps it’s barely past the horizon. The rest of the day is cold and beautiful
• The weird times when it sprinkles in summer in one specific spot for no reason. You bet that you could even walk the whole diameter that the drizzle hit the ground, but you know for sure that the spots where the rain droplets hit have already evaporated.
• Knowing that the way it rains a night before it will be foggy in the morning 

Actually, I wasn’t all that pleased with this pic. There was a bit too much light on the upper left side and that part is kind of over exposed. But I’m posting this because it gives a little insight as to why today’s run was a short one.

The upper right side of the photo doesn’t really do justice to the heavy clouds rolling in from the north as I took this early in the run. I really thought, based on the location of the storm clouds and the route I was running, that I would skirt the edge of the storm and get home before the downpour hit. No such luck. I turned around and made my way back home, and still wound up pretty wet when I got back indoors!

But at least I got a run in for Father’s Day!

Was going to grill out for dinner.

Now, not so much.

On another note, this makes for a nice way to enjoy the new wind chimes our kids fell in love with at the garden store yesterday.

first thunderstorm of the year i am living 🌙⚡

Is a long time to work in an emergency department. I didn’t have a terrible time, but not gonna lie I definitely want to hide in a hole and glare at anyone (other than husband-dude and one particular equally introverted friend of mine) who dares attempt to engage me in any form of conversation.

Also it’s raining and I’m sleepy and all I really want to do with my blog right now is post gifs of rain and spotify links to Nora Jones songs.