Singin' in the Rain

Or, rather, singing inside the house where I won't actually have to be touched by the rain. Whichever. My spousal unit had to wade through water flowing across the road to get to work today. We hadn't planned on the road being closed, so he didn't wear his really cool knee-high rain boots. He had to microwave his socks (which I find to be extremely clever. I'm just glad he smelled up the work microwave and not mine). I suggested putting his shoes in there too, but that was just a little too out of control...besides, we didn't know if there was any metal on the shoelace holes. I know. We are just crazy adventurers, eh? We may even do something nuts like stay up past 11 tonight. Yeah. We're really on the edge over here.
I would just like to say that even though this house is darling, at this exact moment I am glad it is not mine. This is only a few miles from us though, actually by a neighborhood in which we almost bought a home. (Those people had two other offers that same day, and we didn't land on top that time). My experience this last weekend would have been a lot different if we had gotten that one though. See? I'm so grateful (today) that I don't own a home!! Luckily, we are up on a mountain. The flood came up over the road in a lot of spots as we go into town, but it was still passable. The only real problem was that the same road borders the river, and it was a severe driving hazard because I kept wanting to check out how high the water had gotten and kept forgetting to keep my eyes on the road. I know that everyone out there who knows me is VERY shocked that I have trouble focusing on driving. Good thing the police had better things to do today (right, Jenn?) The really fun thing about this flood was how the rain affected the snow. We had so much snow in the trees over our house that when it started pouring rain, it all melted and huge chunks of it would smash into our roof with loud THUMPs...All. Night. Long. At first, I thought a mountain lion had gotten on our roof and was going to eat our cat (which we kicked out for certain unsanitary behavior--she's lucky I didn't eat her for dinner, the little nasty. Our kids have earned big bucks for clean-up lately). But, the rain melted all the tire-sucking, car imbibing, quick-slush on the side of our driveway as well, so I can't complain much.