Summer! (for 5.29.11)

With my feet dangling in the ice cold pool, I wait for my victim. The pool is so calm, so smooth. I swish my feet back and forth, causing ripples and little waves to run from my feet. The velvet of the water cools my legs as I sit on the deck. With a flick of my feet water spays over my body. At the sound of the creaking door, I fill my squirt gun with the freezing water. I aim and fire the cold water at my sister, who just walked out of our basement door.

Don’t you just love summer?

5.19.11 - Sunshine on a cloudy day

She runs with glee through the water that pours down from the dark clouds that hang, gloomily, above her. She's dressed in the appropriate garb for the ominous day that lies ahead of her: A yellow rain slicker, and rain boots. A multicolored umbrella is firmly planted in her hand. She has to make her own sunshine on a day like today, and she does.

She runs and jumps landing in the center of a puddle and a gleeful laugh oozes up from inside of her.

It's a sunshiney day in her eyes. She has completed another school year.