Yesterday was Wednesday and on Wednesdays we drive to the nearest store to buy the newspaper. The newspapers on Monday and Tuesday are so thin, they don't make the drive worth it. It is 3 miles to the nearest grocery store.
Last night we went out for our usual evening walk. To the north, we could see the sky was dark, and there was the occasional flash of lightning and thunder but it looked like it was very far away and actually, as we walked, it seemed the storm was kind of dying down. We walked farther today than usual, because we found a little road that had a cable across it. There was no sign saying do not enter, or private property, so we crossed over the cable and walked around. The dirt road led us to a hill that Guillermo wanted to go up, so I said I'd go up halfway with him and wait for him to come back from the top. From the spot where I waited, the view was just gorgeous. Of course, if the lake had been full, the view would have been a LOT better, but even so, the view was still beautiful. It was nice to see the storms in the distance, since they seemed so far away.
On our walk back, it was starting to get dark and it also seemed that the lightning was getting brighter and the thunder was getting louder. Back at the house, we sat out on the deck to watch the light show and after a while we went back in because it looked like the storms were going to stay in the distance. We weren't in the house more than 4 minutes or so when I heard what sounded like rain so I opened the sliding glass door to see and it wasn't raining but the wind was REALLY whipping around. We were so surprised! So, we brought in everything; the bird feeders, the padding for the chairs, etc. We sat out there a little while with the nice cool wind but after a while, it did start raining and we were getting a little wet. It ended up that it rained a lot with lots of intense lightning. The storm must have lasted 2 hours! And here we thought the storms were going away!
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