A summer rain, especially while in the parked RV, is always an adventure. It makes you feel snuggly and hunkered down. After the rain, the air smells fresh and the sun’s rays seem to sparkle through the trees just a bit brighter.
But a summer thunder and lightning storm in the parked RV, especially when the RV is parked in a crappy spot with broken tree limbs and gullies, construction-caused mud flows and debris rushing past your doorway, is NOT fun. No, it is just a bit unnerving and decidedly not snuggly.
Concluding our time in the Ozarks, this summer storm may be bringing some relief to numerous states experiencing the excruciating heatwave of late, but to us campers, it is only providing us with mud and that funky damp smell to everything, especially the dogs.
Speaking of the dogs, you may have read about the explosion of ticks this summer across the country. Well, that certainly is the case here in the Ozarks. Every time I take the dogs out for their walk, even when I avoid the tall grasses, I must do the requisite bug check upon our return and inevitably find one or two new ticks! Especially on Lola who has black fur.
I am very good at finding and getting the bugs off the dogs, and they are equally very good at sitting through this torturous affair.
For those who know me well, you know I am somewhat of a ‘dog whisperer’, and I am definitely a dog lover. I believe Lola and Fiona know what I am doing and why I am tweezing their skin and fur off. They are so smart! And patient.
Gary and I have only found a few bugs on us, thank God, but I’m over this whole production.
Our next stop is a city, Jefferson City, the capital of Missouri, so we are hopeful that, despite the forecasted rain, the ticks and other random bugs will stay in the woods and give us all, especially the dogs, a much-needed break.