Start With A Bang!

Four o'clock in the morning.  Bang!  Nothing like a bright flash of lightning and loud clap of thunder to jump start the day.  It has been raining hard for two solid hours and that is most welcome, but the lightning has continued the whole time and we could do without that.  Within what seemed like minutes, the big pine beetles were banging on the screens.  They always come out with the first rain.  The whirring of their wings as they bumble along sounds like a cat growling.  Of course I waited until today to make the trip to town.  I was going to go yesterday, but Helper Dude had time to trim Bessie's nails so I stayed home.  (Any excuse is a good one.  I hate to go to town.)  Turkeys down in the woods are having hissy fits in the dark, adding to the din.  The cellphone is on the charger and I'm backing up the computer, just in case we lose power.  So far, so good.  One of the things on the shopping list is to get a tarp to cover the firewood, not that we need to light the wood stove yet, but the log pile does need to be under wraps.  Guess I'm a little late for that.  The truck is getting its seasonal car wash.  You can tell the hill people from the flatlanders by how dusty/dirty their vehicles are.  I'm definitely hill people. 

The goats will not be happy with the change in weather, although the worst of the electrical part of the storm seems to have blown over.  As for me, it's going to be a good day.