RAINY DAY

We had a few glorious days of warmth and sunshine, but I was getting over whatever it was I was getting over.  I finally felt the need to get out of the house last Friday (the 7th), we decided to go to one of our favorite gardens for a walk and left the house early-ish (10:15 a.m) and headed in the direction of Meadowlark Gardens.  We like to stop at a favorite pasty shop.  It is on the way to the garden.  We intended to have a picnic before we began our walk.  However, it started to rain heavily.  When I checked a few days before, the weather was going to be cloudy but with zero rain.  Great for taking photos of flowers I thought.  The shade would help the colors pop.  

Five minutes after we left the house it started to pour, and still hoping it would finish before we reached our destination, we realized it would probably be socked in for at least the next few hours. Not wanting to get drenched, and most definitely not being the stuff of ducks these days...

 having not thought of the brolly or wellies in the trunk, not having thought to look at the day's forecast, we resigned ourselves to the fact that our walk would be on another day.  

But, all was not lost, we still went to our pasty shop and had a car picnic instead.  We thoroughly enjoyed our traditional pasty and chatted away looking at the rain.  This is where we parked, with the sign showing the shops nearby.  I noticed the rain-drop patterns and out came my cell phone.  No photos of flowers but what the hey.

On our way home we rolled into the coffee shop drive-thru.  A long line of cars greeted us.  We followed the blue Kia and read the stickers on the back.  They had the Adventure Zone, What's Up You Cool Baby(?), a sticker showing a line of cacti, the Yellowstone Park sign (our all time favorite national park), Big Foot and yes, I saw Big Foot that day but only in sticker form...he was as curious about us as we were about him.

There was a World Series Champions sticker (for the Nationals in 2019), a ribbon I didn't recognize, a statement on vaccinations, a sticker of a cute owl and knowing there was an owl lover driving the car, well, that made me smile.  

I remembered all the times our son when young wanted to put stickers all over our car and baa-humbug I don't like stickers on our car but apparently, I do enjoy readings others on other cars now.  Hey-ho it's a rainy day, did I mention it was a long line?  

We finally got to the window and I ordered a tall cup of coffee from the friendly barista.  She was also making a statement and on every square inch she had about 3 dozen pins pinned on her pinny.  I was curious but I didn't think she would appreciate me hanging my head out the window to read them (wrong side anyhow), and it was still raining though not quite the downpour it was before.

  Gregg was finishing off his coca-cola from the pasty shop, and I had finished my small bottle of Fanta.  By the time we reached the drive-thru I was ready for my coffee and I was now well informed on the stickers out there.  It was still raining and we drove home.

We missed having a walk around the garden but as that old saying goes, make lemonade out of the lemons you're given, or something like that.

Have a great day everyone and thanks for dropping by.