Sideways rain

5 June 2016: There's something that delights me about brief, intense, summer rainstorms. I think they remind me of being young, playing outside, and getting soaked--something so harmlessly decadent (a paradox, I know) about it. We had a storm like that on Sunday. It probably lasted three minutes. I was upstairs taking clothes out of the dryer when it started. By the time I got to closing the windows, the floors about two feet from them were wet--that's how intensely the wind directed the rain, so that it practically came in sideways. The cats were a bit freaked out, but I thought it was kind of fun. And yes, quite quickly over.