Earthquakes, downpours, & the return of the Monkey

In the last three days we've had two earthquakes; one was 4.3 and the other 5.3 on the Richter Scale. No damage at our home... We have also just had 24 plus hours of unbelievable rain accompanied by a very welcome cold front. We actually have not had to have any air conditioning all day...and that is unbelievable. Lots of minor flooding in the area and more rain forecast, but again, God has spared us from any damage.

The Return of the Monkey is actually a misnomer...he never went anywhere! But he did come back in a big way today. I was standing outside laughing as he "hitched" a ride on the back of a teenage girl on roller blades who was doing everything she could think of to get him off, when he decided to get down and get into the car of one of our teachers. His windows were down and our 'friend' decided he'd better take a look, so he climbed into the front seat. We quickly found out our teacher was a smoker because the monkey came out of the car with a pack of cigarettes in his hand and climbed atop the car. There he sat pulling out one cigarette after another, chewing on them a bit, looking quizzically at them, and then throwing them to the ground. The teacher was frantically running from side to side of his car trying to reclaim his cigarettes when the monkey decided to get down, run across the street and sit on a rope fence. There he pulled out one more cigarette, put it into his mouth and leaned back on the rope as if he were just relaxing with the cigarette hanging out of his mouth! One mad teacher, one pack of cigarettes destroyed, & one funny monkey!