Snapshots: RAAAAIIIINNN!!!

Did that title adequately express our excitement about the main event of our week? No? Perhaps you require more exclamation points.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There.

I literally do not remember the last time it actually rained significantly here. Some snow this winter, but nothing remarkable, and it was depressingly dry all summer and fall. We're in a bad drought right now, which is disastrous in a place that relies on natural pastures to feed livestock. As everyone here does, including us. 

That is why the big storm that moved in Saturday morning was such a big deal. And that is why we were SO HAPPY to look out the door in the morning and see this:

RAAAIIINNN!!!!

We ended up getting half an inch of rain.

We know this because of our handy rain gauge, which has not had any measurable rain in it since I bought it for A. last year. For Father's Day. Yeah. That's a drought, all right.

The rain ended around noon and it turned into a pretty nice day, so we shooed everyone out the door.

Odin was already out the door, and happy to see the humans out, too.

Three-fourths of the children elected to go for a bike ride.

 

Into the great wide open.

Which ended as almost all bike rides do when Daddy the Indulgent is there:

Mommy the Mean has neither a belt to tow the girl with, nor the inclination to indulge her in this way.

This week was the boys' spring break off from school, and it unfortunately featured absolutely terrible winds almost every day. Luckily, the wind is usually bearable right at sunrise, so I instigated a lot of early-morning walks so the children would get outside before it became unpleasant.

The dogs were never reluctant. The same could not always be said of the children.

That golden light just as the sun clears the horizon is my favorite.

And there you have it! My life, snapshotted.