Heavy and sweet, the scent of wild grapes and black locust lies on the valley like a mantle. Chores are done, everyone else is off to work, or off to buy seed or off doing some other thing....
Then a storm comes grumbling down from the mountains, lightning flashing over the northern towns, thunder rumbling, rumbling, rumbling
The breeze picks up and whirls stray feathers and hay stems in rising circles
The air changes....sharply warning. Weather is coming
Nobody home but me......
Jack the pony in from his yard, safe in the barn and fed and watered. Showed me some flash and dance but I have his number.
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Guinea roosters locked up in the hen house
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Laundry down and folded
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Computers off and unplugged
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Cat in his kennel, Nick in the house...mad cat; happy dog
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Tomato plants tucked up under the table, safely out of the wind
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Wood stove filled for the night while the wood is still dry
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Gael blissfully oblivious, slumbering through it all. Merciful deafness wraps her safe in sleep, free from her terror of booms and bangs.
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Time to sit down and watch the weather roll by. I hate to say the words but we could use a touch of rain (just a touch, for Heaven's sake hold the monsoons.) The grass is slowing down its rampant spring growth and things are wilting down.
Huh, no storm, three and half drops of rain, and five minutes of howling wind....what's up with that?
That is for sure and we really do need the rain at this point! We will be watering our apple trees that is for sure.
ReplyDeleteThe winds came here overnight, and nearly blew me out of bed. It rained to the north and to the west, but not here. It's quite usual for the big black clouds to detour around our hill.
ReplyDeleteYou did a lot of prep work for nothin'!
We're wishing for rain too. We started out good, but now it's so dry.
ReplyDeleteHasn't the weather been something else this year? And it seems to be weird everywhere.
ReplyDeleteLinda
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Same thing has been going on here... for the last 4 days... gets darkish... thunder rumbles... not even a drop, sun out... humidity on the rise...
ReplyDeleteIt was a "dry run" just to make sure you'd have all your ducks in a row:)
ReplyDeleteLisa, I don't envy you that job! All this dry weather sure makes the radishes hot! lol
ReplyDeleteJune, same here, but we usually get every storm that comes down the pike. This one hit all around us, but missed right here
Dani, I always hate to ask for rain...the whole being careful what you wish for thing...but it is getting really dry. Hope you get what you need.
JB, thank you
LInda, it has been weird on one hand, but it really seems to me to be a lot like when we were kids. This is the first time in decades that you could swim in the lakes on Memorial Day..and when I was young you almost always could. The life guards went on duty then and everybody went swimming
Sara, nice and cool here this morning. I am hoping the dew keeps the sorghum and grass growing
Linda, ducks were lined right up. lol I don't like storms much so on that account I didn't mind missing it. If we get hit we get it bad and there is often more damage than I like to see. It is real dry though.