Rain

Two days ago it rained on and off all day, occasionally coming down at a tropical rainstorm pace. I have great memories of running barefoot in the rain as a kid (in fact, shoeless in the rain was a strictly enforced rule at the school I attended as a kid, probably because such a rule more than tripled the life of shoes during the rainy season). Some of the Marines that were supposedly conducting martial arts training in a sandy clearing decided to have fun and the training session degenerated into a mud fight. It looked like a lot of fun.

The next morning, my trip to the shower trailer highlighted the downside of such muddy activity: one shower stall in particular was covered with a half inch thick layer of mucky goo, and the floor was almost as bad. Ah well, I don’t think anyone around here minds, as long as at least one shower stall is clean enough for those who can’t handle a little mud. As little as it rains here (we’re probably now at the extreme end of spring here, that may have been our last rain of the season), I sure enjoyed it.

Semper Fi, Jon G.