August monsoon rain.flooding my garden, that stormy evening and<\/p>\n
I heard a loud cry of frogs in a festive mood of lovemaking<\/p>\n
In a pool of water cascading towards \u00a0a small stream.<\/p>\n
My raincoats and boots are dripping, when I tried to check my garden flooded up to my waist<\/p>\n
Thinking my vegetable garden was badly damage from the flood.<\/p>\n
i hang my raincoat and left my wet boots outside<\/p>\n
And went back to my kitchen to get hot water from my teapot.<\/p>\n
The steam from the pot touched my elbow and\u00a0left a red mark.<\/p>\n
it warms my shivering body from cold after a cup of coffee.<\/p>\n
iI returned upstairs to get a warm blanket and noticed my children are intact in bed.<\/p>\n
I laid down to get some sleep but, it kept me awake all night,<\/p>\n
Worrying about the tomatoes I have in my garden and are ready for harvesting.<\/p>\n
At the break of dawn, I went out to check my garden and<\/p>\n
Lo and behold, some tomatoes survive the floods area, while the rest are left rotten.<\/p>\n
Picking ripe tomatoes are easy and it filled up my basket easily.<\/p>\n
I heard a slurpy munching sound from the back of a tree,<\/p>\n
A \u00a0squirrel peculate \u00a0and munching on my sweet tomatoes.<\/p>\n
After preparing a canner, a jar and a lid to preserve my tomatoes,<\/p>\n
I noticed a green speckled frog inside one of my jar,<\/p>\n
mysteriously jumped inside the basket full of red and green tomatoes.<\/p>\n
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