We were in the middle of a drought and haven??™t had rain in weeks. I was happy to have a thunder storm coming to water my yard. I haven??™t had so much as a shower on my yard in three weeks.

Each morning I get up early and drag out the water hose and sprinkler and start watering the grass. I let it run on this spot for 30 minutes and go move it over so it will cover some more of the yard. It takes five spots for the sprinkler to cover the entire front yard.

Then I have to do the same thing in the back yard. By this time I??™m exhausted and have to go back to bed. I don??™t even have enough energy to eat a peanut butter sandwich and drink a glass of milk.

So you can see why I was happy to have a thunder storm coming my way.

I got out of bed and went to the front door to watch it rain. But when I opened the door I saw that it had not started yet. The lightning and thunder were coming closer all the time though, so it couldn??™t be long now.

Little fox came up behind me to see what I was looking at, but she didn??™t like the thunder so she went back to her bed. Then Johnnie came to the door to watch the rain with me. You would have thought we had never seen rain before the way we acted.

Well we stood there for 15 minutes and it hadn??™t started raining yet, although the lightning and thunder were putting on quite a show. Johnnie told me she was going back to bed and that left me standing there by myself.

Even I get tired standing there after a while and I closed the door, but I??™m not sleepy now so I go in the kitchen and get a big glass of milk and (yes you guessed it) the Jif peanut butter jar and a spoon and sit down at the table. I??™ve been known as the peanut butter kid as long as I can remember, I guess the name is justified. But that??™s a whole nother story for a different time.

As I sat there eating my peanut butter out of the jar with a spoon and drinking my milk, I realized that the thunder was getting fainter. Now I couldn??™t see any lightning out the patio door and finally the thunder was gone.

I got up and went back to the front door. When I opened it I saw that we hadn??™t gotten any rain, not a drop. All my expectations had been denied. I thought I might as well get dressed and start pulling that water hose and sprinkler out, because there was no telling how long this drought would last.