After miserable heat most of the week, the weather broke last night. The dark clouds gathered above and, finally, as usually happens with these storms, we lost satellite signal. This almost always takes at the most five minutes, but this time it lasted 90 minutes. The cable companies always use this occurance to try to buffalo you out of satellite service. But...like who cares? It's only television. If we'd been all that bored we could have put a DVD on anyway. Instead, we opened the back door to the deck and watched the storm. The lightning was quite spectacular. Oddly, not a tree in the back was moving. Usually during these storms the trees bow and sway like chorus line dancers. We could hear the great rush of the rain striking the leaves.

When the rain started to splash in, we abandoned the back and went to sit on the porch to continue watching the light show. Willow insisted on coming with us although she is afraid of thunder and spent the half hour cuddled in James' arms.

It was a lot of fun.

Today the storm started again just after we got home with the groceries. No sweat: we read the paper, did the curtain work down in James' hobby room, then got ready to eat. The clouds remained, but the rain stopped and we watched the parade of birds assail the feeder. During supper we watched Eight Below.

Mighty nice all round.

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. . . . . noted and logged by Linda at 9:29:00 PM

Comments:

It all sounds very, very nice, Linda!

# posted by  Tina : 12:07:00 AM

 

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