My street has officially turned into a lazy river

Before Raven came down, Badger told him he needed to bring his own snacks and drinks. 
We’re still adjusting to getting paid every two weeks and can’t afford many extras. 
It might seem rude or greedy, but that’s five extra people to feed and give drinks to.

I think Raven got upset. 
Even though I told him as clearly as I could that I was fixing supper for him, the kids, and us, last night he didn’t eat and the kids didn’t eat either.

He went up to the Dollar Store and bought drinks and cereal bars for the kids for breakfast today.

I feel a little bad about it, but we've just started with an every two week paycheck. 
We're trying to make sure we have supplies in stock for those weeks, there isn't a paycheck, but there are still bills needing paid.

For a long time, Cowboy’s paycheck bought most of what the kids ate and drank here on the weekends; Raven rarely brought anything for the kids.

Things are a bit different now.

We woke up to thunder and a lot of rain, I mean, a lot of rain. 
It rained until probably 1 pm and rumbled with thunder most of the morning. 

We went under a flash flood warning. 
My backyard had a little stream going down to the RV and garden area. 

The street the senior citizen center is on was totally flooded; it was almost to the senior citizen porch.

The greenhouse driveway was standing in water.
There was water pouring out of the drainage pipe.

In the wooded field, our pathway was standing in water, and there was a stream running down from the railroad tracks to the woods.

I assume the ground was so saturated it knocked down two trees in the wooded field and a tree down by the river.

It was pretty bad.

Even though it was pouring rain, the she-shed was dry, so I went out to sit in it just to get away from the noise.

Well, Raven brought the kids out; it was raining so heavily I got soaked just walking to the she-shed. 
He let them splash and play in the rain and the puddles.
 I'm all for fun daddy, and the kids enjoying themselves, but Drei didn't bring a change of clothes.

He came in, “I need to dry these clothes; Drei has nothing else to wear.”
I told him no, to find him one of his old T-shirts.

 I had a huge load of clothes in the dryer that was still wet, and I wasn't going to take them out. 
I wasn't going to toss them in with my clothes; those kids were filthy and smelly, plain and simple. 
I couldn't open the laundry room door for fear the cats would run out, and I didn't want them around the kids.

Badger complained to Peacock by text.
 Peacock called us mean.

Well, Raven is an adult. 
He knew there weren't any extra clothes to put on Drei.
He didn't have to drag those kids out in the pouring rain.

He also knows that we never ever allow anyone in the laundry room when his kids are here.
We guard our cats like Fort Knox.

He wasn't happy, but he did put Drei in one of his t-shirts.

Raven left at 11:30 am. 
He said he works next weekend.

I think I could survive a visit every two weeks or so, just not every weekend.

There wasn't much mess this time.
 Badger gave the living room a quick tidy-up and let our zoo back out.

After Cowboy got home from the morning church service, we headed to Walmart.
Badger wanted an external hard drive for her ever-expanding pictures.

There was a lot of flooding all the way to town, although we didn't run into any trouble.

The underpass to leave the neighborhood was probably ankle-deep in water. 
It always floods when we get a lot of rain.

A lot of times Cowboy will have to go down and clean out the drainage ditch.
That's not his job.
 It should be the county's job, but they forget we exist.

We made it back home at 2 pm.
The rain had finally stopped, the sun had come out, and it was starting to get really hot.

Cowboy settled down for a nap, so Badger and I headed down to the creek church.

She sat forever watching buzzards and hawks.
She got a couple of good pictures too.

We came home. 
Badger headed to her room and I headed to take a shower.
Not only was I sweaty, but I didn’t realize just how wet I had gotten this morning. 
I was walking home and realized I was soaked, and I know I didn’t sweat that much.

I need to call the dermatologist and cancel my appointment.
I’ve been trying to keep those two spots I had treated dry.

I know I got soaked this morning. I had to come in and change my clothes.
One of the spots must have gotten soaked too. 

I was heading to the car to go to Walmart and it came off.

After my shower, I was getting dressed and looked down and realized the second spot was gone.

When I say spot, I mean they were like hard moles, but they weren’t moles.

It took nearly a month for them to come off.

I’m so glad they’re gone.
I don’t know how long I’ve had them.
Both of them kept getting caught in clothes and I kept bumping them.

Time for Cowboy to go to evening church services came really fast.

While he was gone, Badger went in and turned last night's supper into tonight's casserole. She took the hot dogs, chopped them in small pieces, put the leftover tater tots on top, poured the leftover chili on top of that, and sprinkled cheese all over. It was salty as heck.
I bet we raised Cowboy's blood pressure.
We are a salt-free house.
I've not added salt to food since 1985 or so. My grandmother couldn't have salt, so we got used to not adding it to food. Now that doesn't mean I'm salt-free.
Everything you buy has salt in it, it seems. I just don't add it to food.

Cowboy came home from church, ate supper, and went outside until 10 pm.

Badger and I spent the evening watching TV. She said she felt bad, she'd been outside too long earlier. It made it to the low 80s today.

I'm on the tablet.
I'll clean up the post tomorrow. For now, I'm heading back to my show.