I love thunderstorms. I especially love the ones that wait until midnight to start. We had beautiful weather today (well, a little cloudy, but the sun popped in and out from behind the clouds)... beautiful enough for a trip to the pool this afternoon (let's call it an extended lunch break) and lots o' yard work (complete mowing of both front and back yards by Heidi, edging by Jon) tonight. I actually didn't finish mowing until about 8:45, so you can imagine how funny I might've looked searching through the dusk for that last path. I wasn't going to leave the front 10 feet of my yard unmown, though. We'll see how "did-a-blind-person-mow-this?" it looks in the morning! Then, we even got a bike ride in before the rain came. It was starting to put on a light show for us as we circled through the flat community (any idea how different a mile on a bike is in Statesboro compared to a mile on a bike in les montagnes? yeah, I KNOW!). And once we got back to the house... well, about an hour later... the thunder started rolling, lightning continued flashing, and the rain began coming down in sheets. It makes for fabulous sleeping weather, so Coop & I are just about ready to curl up and enjoy it.
M&D, I hope we aren't getting your rain. This will make over 7 inches (if we get just another half an inch tonight) in a week. Lord knows we needed it... we hadn't had one drop for a month prior to last week's hurricane-related weather. Now, we seem to have settled, for the moment, back into the typical (at least typical to when we first moved down here... it's actually been a while since this was "normal") daily thunderstorm. I hope it stays as a pattern. We still need the rain (on the agenda for tomorrow night's homeowners' association meeting: water conservation rules that are still in effect for Statesboro and the state of GA), and I just enjoy them. Funny, though, I bet my sprinklers are on during this storm. In fact, I'm almost positive they are. Go figure the silly Metz's are watering their lawn during the thunderstorm. Oh well. No way am I going out there to turn 'em off. If the box was in the garage, maybe. But it's on the side of the house... and I might melt if I get wet.
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