the window and saw that I had somehow managed to park under Niagara Falls. I’ve only ever seen rain come down like
that in the tropics during ‘rainy season’. T e enormous fl ashes of lightening and impossible booms and cracks of thunder were beautiful and a bit scary (no man admits to anything more than “a bit” scary) but I soon forgot about them as I discovered that some of the minor fl aws had chosen this time to make their presence known. Damply. T en wetly. T en …. Well, all I could do was grab a bar of soap and make good use of my nature-provided shower. Can you believe that I actually had to open the door of my trailer to let the water out? I had about two inches of it on the fl oor. T is will, to some, seem like very bad
luck indeed. It did to me too, at fi rst. But aſt er I had pushed as much water as I could out the door, I discovered that I had more good luck than a kid born to a billionaire. Wrapped in my robe, I sat down on the bed. Slowly I realized that I wasn’t getting wet any more. T e storm raged on and water still coursed through my wee trailer like a monsoon, but none was falling on me. T e roof over my bed was tight. Not a drop of water came through. T e bed was dry. My sheets and blankets were dry. My pile of pillows was dry. I would have thought I was drunk except that for over ten years I too have been “dry.” I slept like a baby. A few days later I moved to a proper,
non-government, trailer park in Oliver. It was more expensive than the Provincial Park but with more facilities for my trailer (water, electricity, sewage disposal). It was while I was there that, a week later, I got my last full day of rain for the summer. T is time the roof didn’t leak – not a drop. I had made no repairs, so why no shower-from-the-roof this time? T e next day I mentioned this to my neighbour, an experienced trailer person. It seems that an older (40 yrs) trailer such as mine will oſt en leak if it is not parked dead level. Any slope at all will twist the frame a bit and open up all sorts of cracks and slits for the water to enter. I spent a couple of weeks at this trailer
park while doing some repairs and getting a new toilet installed. I then set out to fi nd a less expensive place to spend the summer. On a whim, I went over Anarchist Mountain (who could resist a name like that?) to the next valley. T ere, nestled in
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