Floating Away

We live on a downhill slope from the road. Makes for a nice view from my writing place on the porch. In a rain, however, things get more complicated.Over several months our stock tank, like others, had evaporated into a mudhole. Rosie, our yellow Lab, never seemed to mind, although she emerged every day with black legs. Optimism, perhaps.During the years I lived here with Hale, the tank was a…