Genesis 7

A bit cold outside.
Fog rolling down the hills nearby.
Rain again.
Zero degrees forecast for overnight.
Makes me almost glad to be returning to work tomorrow.
Almost.
At least I'll be inside tomorrow. Except for the occasional odd scurry between buildings.

Genesis 7
Noah puts his ark together, loads all the animals in 7 days and then waits out 40 days of rain and 150 days of floating.

There are so many elements of this that make me glad I wasn't Noah.
First of all, I am not really the animal loving guy.
Yes I had a dog when I was younger.
Yes we have a dog now.
Yes I gave Donna a cat once.
I even helped rear calves for a while.
But there is no way in the whole, wide, wet world that I would want to spend around 200 days stuck in an enclosed space with damp animals.

No
way
in
the
whole
wide
world.

My sister would think it wouldn't be too bad.
In fact she probably would've wanted to save more animals.
Only 2.
No way.
We can easily fit in more.
Especially horses.
And dogs.
And little fluffy bunnies.
But in reality, even the geckos would have been worth fighting for.
Sticky feet pad thingys and all.

Secondly, that much time on the water,
in a boat,
would have meant what the animals left behind would not have been the only gross stuff to clean up.
Not with ol' "Iron-stomach" Steve captaining the vessel.
Anything above a ripple would have caused a rebellion in my belly and the staunchest blockades would not be enough to hold back the tides of......
Well I think you get the point.
I wish I could handle being on the water better.
The fish are bigger out further.
I have friends who spend time out in boats while I look wistfully on from the shore.
I'll just have to keep trying and take more Kweezies.

I wonder how much experience Noah or any of the others had on boats.
I don't think it was much.

There was no mistake in God calling Noah to do what he had to do.
That there is pretty cool.