The official
news announcement was made…Tsuyu has begun. The kickoff to the 2013 rainy season is
underway. We can expect about 2 months of rain mixed with thunderstorms. This is
followed by the typhoon season. Not exactly an ideal time to build a deck or seal/
paint a newly built workshop. Oh well, we did the best we could. Somehow we’ll
have to take advantage of any breaks in the inclement weather. In the meantime,
I have a lot of caulking and staining to do in our home.
This is a difficult time of year for the doggies. Kiley freaks out when she senses a thunderstorm approaching. Lucky becomes very quiet. We're using a Thundershirt and music specifically designed to calm dogs in order to combat the effects of thunder. It's not 100% effective, but it does reduce the time that the dogs need to recover. Sometimes the reduced recovery times are dramatic. George
We're lucky that Kuri and Hayate are chill about storms (and fireworks... advantages of being Japanese dogs perhaps?!), but I suffer in rainy-season :( I visit different schools every day, last year on a bicycle and this year on a scooter, so there's just no way to stay dry. As an Australian, getting rained on just feels unnatural and cruel! I didn't realise how much water could fall out of the sky until moving to Japan.
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