Painting in the Rain – v4

A little rain wasn’t going to stop us;

No, we were there to scrape,

to prime the house, to work,

to help out, make progress

to help a neighbor in need.

Laughing as the rain ran off the roof

and down my back,

holding the ladder, an anchor,

for the scraping above me

Noticing that even the spiders

found places out of the storm

But we were undaunted, for a time,

and kept painting in the rain

undaunted by the sprinkles

until the showers became a torrent

rain running off the walls.

Edited December 14, 2013

“Painting in the Rain – v4”

(editing version 2)

Edited August 8, 2013

“Painting in the Rain – v3”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/08/painting-in-rain-v3.html

Edited May 5, 2013

“Painting in the Rain – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/05/painting-in-rain-v2.html

Title 8/8/07, poem started 8/11/07 11:30, finished August 12, 2007 20:26

“Painting in the Rain”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2007/08/painting-in-rain.html

Our mission trip,

from Wesley United Methodist Church,

Concord, NH and from First United Methodist Church,

Hudson, MA to Jacksonville and Machias, ME

to the Down East Maine Mission,

Jacksonville United Methodist Campground,

East Machias, ME

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