A slight drizzle is falling. I’m looking out through the window, sitting at the desk, dripping. Naturally, when I raced (now that’s a stretch…) from the car to the door, it was Gulf coast water (sans tar-balls) carried all the way across Texas and southern Oklahoma to be dashed down upon my head.

A regular gully-washer, as they say. They – being the ones who presumably live near gullies. We don’t run onto gullies much anymore. Pretty much gone the way of the gulch and other things that cowboys used to burp around the campfire.

Needless to say, it was raining cats and dogs this morning.

We were lucky, I guess. As I look out, the parking lot is free of domestic animals (feral ones too, presumably), so they survived the downpour and ran off to play. It might have been worse. According to some scamp writing for Wikipedia, there have been numerous “rains” of more than just H2O.

Fishies:
Singapore, February 22, 1861; Olneyville, Rhode Island, May 15, 1900; Bhanwad, Jamnagar, India, Oct 24, 2009; Lajamanu, Northern Territory, Australia, February 25 and 26, 2010; Marksville, Louisiana, October 23, 1947.
Frogs and toads
Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, June 2009; Rákóczifalva, Hungary, 18-20 June 2010 (two times).
Others
An unidentified animal (thought to be a cow) fell in California ripped to tiny pieces on August 1, 1869; a similar incident was reported in Olympian Springs, Bath County, Kentucky in 1876; Jellyfish fell from the sky in Bath, England, in 1894; Worms dropped from the sky in Jennings, Louisiana, on July 11, 2007. Spiders fell from the sky in Salta Province, Argentina on April 6, 2007.

Oooooooo…now wouldn’t THAT be a way to start the morning? A downpour of spiders?

I’m happy to be sitting here dripping!

Try the reign of the library cat, Dewey by Vicki Myron: