{"id":95964,"date":"2026-04-26T10:41:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T17:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=95964"},"modified":"2026-04-26T20:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:00:15","slug":"the-answer-was-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=95964","title":{"rendered":"The Answer Was &#8220;Rain&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_95965\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95965\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-95965\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-04-25-001a-650x766.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"766\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-04-25-001a-650x766.jpg 650w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-04-25-001a-127x150.jpg 127w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-04-25-001a-768x905.jpg 768w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-04-25-001a-100x118.jpg 100w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-04-25-001a.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-95965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I tried, but someone beat me to it!!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At 2:00 am, the rain began, and it poured hard for quite a while.\u00a0 By morning, when we got up, the rain had passed, and we had bright blue skies filled with cotton-candy clouds.<\/p>\n<p>We had our coffee and watched the news, then Mary launched into her daily wrestling match with the computer.\u00a0 At the same time, I cleaned the kitchen, folded clothes, and generally pitty-pattered around the house hunting for chores like a bored housekeeping detective.<\/p>\n<p>We got a call from Amy, and her vision took a dramatic turn for the worse, so we went to the ER at Hoge Hospital in Newport Beach.\u00a0 After checking, she got some meds and was sent home.\u00a0 We stopped to have a bite to eat before going our separate ways.<\/p>\n<p>Amy called, Mary texted the optometrist, and we will see her at 8:30 am.<\/p>\n<p>We watched TV, and I crashed,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-95970\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/04\/486780832_673456258669049_2114561834876247705_n-650x813.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"813\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/04\/486780832_673456258669049_2114561834876247705_n-650x813.jpg 650w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/04\/486780832_673456258669049_2114561834876247705_n-120x150.jpg 120w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/04\/486780832_673456258669049_2114561834876247705_n-100x125.jpg 100w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2026\/04\/486780832_673456258669049_2114561834876247705_n.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 2:00 am, the rain began, and it poured hard for quite a while.\u00a0 By morning, when we got up, the rain had passed, and we had bright blue skies filled with cotton-candy clouds. 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