On Keeping Things Dry When It Starts Raining

It is raining. Yet again, it is raining. It's rained for weeks straight & then it's rained some more. Somehow in the midst of all of the rain, on a singular sunny day (that was forecasted to be cloudy) I managed, with a tube of this in the car, to get way too much sun. Sitting in my car, waiting for the sun to go behind the clouds & become that forecasted cloudy day. I do so good in the Springtime; I consider the rays & plot out my outside time well according to the time of the day. Once the seventh month of the year strikes, my brain switches too. Like the first weekend of August last year when I earned myself a sunburn on the upper portion of my body while wearing a strapless sundress sitting underneath a tree in a friend's front yard as her family held a yard sale.

Sometimes I think these rainy days were the type of camping days when Mom & Dad decided we were best to get a camper versus continuing to camp only in our family tent. Camping in the tent on rainy days meant watching the edges of the underside portion to be sure that all of our fabrics weren't nearby. Oftentimes we'd have our sleeping bags too close to the bends & folds of tent's base. These were the times we'd need to be certain & pull everything back about five or so inches. We'd have these & the edges of these sitting along the tent's sides. Mom would remind us that we weren't going to want any part of these wet when we'd be sleeping. It was up to us kids to scoot about the tent's interior & "mad man" style prepare the area for the oncoming water. Mom would instruct us as soon as water appeared to be imminent, yet there were many a time when there would hardly be a sprinkle or two prior to the downpour.

Dad would be hustling about in the small space surrounding the picnic table. Though we'd have the family's cooler (which stayed in the minivan overnight to keep the groundhogs from helping themselves 😁), as well as all of the cooking apparatus sitting in a line on the ground with the apparatus items in cardboard boxes in so that it wouldn't be sitting directly atop the campsite's ground. He, most likely, would have been working to prep the next family meal, or at least to get it organized. Mom would've been directing all of the traffic.

We had one of these, which helped a lot. It kept away the bees, mosquitoes, flies & more. When the sides were zipped with the plastic in place, the rain stayed out too, though having plastic for walls created a heat problem & if the rain had come around as Mother Nature's way of decreasing humidity, which wouldn't happen instantly, the air both inside & outside could get very uncomfortable. And the campground's pool would be closed during the rain.

And visiting the bathhouse & toilets while it rained at a campground...Well, that's synonymous to driving through the neighborhood's of a major city when its sports teams have a playoff or finals game: it's very much vacant. The reasoning is different; well, unless it's raining during the sports games too, then everyone is trying to be out of the weather & under a roof. 😂

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