Raining Cats and Dogs

One thing I've learned so far in Illinois is that the weather can be unpredictable. I know there are other places across the globe with this phenomenon. But I've woken up the past few mornings to continuous rain and by the afternoon, it's sunny again like nothing happened. Or one weekend it's 90+ degrees with high humidity and the next weekend, it's rainy and overcast.

The people here don't seem to be phased by the weather. They go out to walk their dogs, rain or shine (it seems like about 40 percent of the residents here have some kind of pet). The nice part about Evanston, though, is the abundance of trees to provide shade and block the rain if you have to go out.

Last night was even worse because I got awoken by a loud and thunderous storm outside the window with flashes of lightning. Then I realized that we had left some windows open the previous day so I got up to check them. I closed the windows and promptly got back into bed and tried to fall asleep. Then it occurred to me that the windows were double pane and the pane of glass on the outside needed to be closed so that water would not seep into the window sill and cause water damage.

I got out of bed the second time to check the windows and closed the windowpane on the outside. During this whole ordeal, Logan had been sleeping soundly but soon awoke to the noise of me jiggling the windows and trying to close them. (However, he didn't wake up to the loud, obnoxious storm outside which seemed odd to me.) He sat up drowsily and asked, "What are you doing?" I tried to explain that I didn't want water coming into our window sills and causing damage. He didn't respond (probably because he still didn't understand why I could be making such loud racket in the middle of the night), but just went right back to sleep.

When we woke up the next morning, he asked me again what I was doing last night. He said, "All I could hear was our house shaking and the windows rattling and you getting up every two minutes." I explained again what the problem had been and that I didn't want water seeping into our apartment. He finally understood that this needed to be done, and we both laughed at the situation.