Day was good despite rain

It is pouring down rain as I write this. We are anxiously watching the puddles in the backyard, trying to decide if we should get the ark out of storage or not. If we decide to get the ark ready for another flood there is a lot of work to do. First of all we need to build it.

After we get it built it would need to be checked over for any problems. Once the ark itself is ready for a 39-day cruise there are lots of things that will need to be brought on board before we can even consider gathering the animals. We need clean lodgings for family members and a way for them to get away from their relatives. We need food and a source of clean water. We also need a way to dispose of the waste that would be generated by a boat full of animals and people. 

While I am trying to figure all of this out I hear a knock on the door. My brother, Michael, and his wife, Diane, have stopped by for a visit. He looked a lot better than he did at Christmas. His doctors have advised him to drastically change his ways. 

The last time he ended up in the hospital was because his blood pressure was sky high. They got his blood pressure down to a more reasonable range and advised him that he needed to change his diet. If he didn’t, he was sure to be admitted to the hospital again. The next time he might not be so lucky as to walk out of there on his own.

Thankfully he listened. He said he is living on salads during the week and allows himself a little more variety on the weekends. He looked more relaxed and also seemed to be happier than I had seen him in a very long time.

While they were here the rain stopped. I haven’t walked across the street to see how high the river is but Michael said that from what they saw on the way to our house the water was higher than normal. Perhaps I shouldn’t put the ark plans on hold after all.

After Michael and Diane left, our daughter, Beth, called. She wished me a happy Mother’s Day. I asked if she was having a good day. She wasn’t.

Apparently her son, Jacob, had a project due. They had it almost finished before reading the directions. They scrapped what they had done and finished it up quickly.

Then he needed to write a paper on things that had happened the year he was born. He decided to write about insects that had been discovered that year. 

They were searching through Google to find the needed information. Beth happened upon a spider with an unusual name and suggested that Jacob could write about that. You would have thought that the end of the world had come. He informed her that a spider wasn’t an insect. She told him that nobody cares. It’s an English paper not a science one. Jacob sighed and said that the spider wasn’t an insect. Beth said that nobody cares, just write about the spider. “But, Mo-om! A spider isn’t an insect!” I’m not sure if he took her suggestion or not. Somehow, I doubt it. 

In addition, Beth had a lot of papers of her own to do. She had trouble logging on to the correct sites and once she got to where she needed to be other complications appeared. None of the problems had anything to do with spiders or insects.

The rain has stopped. The puddles in the yard have disappeared. Thoughts of ark building have been scrapped. I can’t help either Beth nor Jacob with their homework. I have faith that everything will turn out like it should.

All in all it was a good Mother’s Day.