Wet Boots

 (This is actually a post from a while back, during a wet spring time.  I just finished editing and it posted it as most recent - too much for me to figure out.)

We've had a lot of rain this past month, with last week being especially wet.  Over the weekend we lined up dozens of boots on the porch to dry and be ready for a new week.  On Monday, they were still damp.  Frantically, we shifted our previous boot arrangement; some out to catch the bit of sun that was momentarily peeking in the early afternoon, some tipped upside down, some placed in front of the warm heater, all in attempt to hurry the drying process.

Children streamed in from the bus.  Sneakers enthusiastically tossed underneath backpacks.  Rain pants and almost dry boots slipped on. Noisy, eager children, hardly noticing the dampness, pounded out the door, raced through the raindrops and found the nearest flooded puddles.  Splasshhhhh!  Splatttterrr!   Into the rushing stream!  Over the tops of the boots.....seeping down the legs.....soaking the clean white socks......sopping the barely dried insides of the boots.   "Stop!"  "Wait..."  "Oh never mind..."