Attribution: A farm track after rain by Stanley Howe, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper’s observation that only a former farm boy of his obsolete vintage can remember how to appreciate a summer day that dawns wet and rainy and with the kind of overcast that is going to be around for a while.
In the frenzied season of putting up hay and cultivating corn and fixing fences and a thousand other things, waking up to a morning of clouds and mist was like shucking off the leg irons and handcuffs of the farm summer season and wondering where the fishpoles might be.
The keeper hopes that farmers still go fishing on rainy summer days and he would like to be one of them, except he remembers how disappointing it was when the sun broke through the overcast before noon and there was work to be done.
If it stays cloudy all day today, the keeper may suggest to Phyllis that they go fishing. Being of rural origins she will understand.
Photo by Bill Stokes