Well, it must be summer here because we are having big ol' whopping thunderstorms. It stays hot all day and the clouds, teenage punks hanging around outside the smoke shop, keep threatening to do something. Finally it cuts loose and when the rain falls hard, the lightening takes off. Some of the strikes were no more than a quarter mile from our house. We just sat on the porch and watched the show. I was lucky enough to catch this strike, although it went behind a tree, so you don't get the full effect. And what a BOOM when a bolt hits nearby! Went on for about twenty minutes and then it just settled down to sprinkling. It's all my fault--I watered the backyard last night.
Oh yeah, I have a guess as to the mysterious chalkwriter. About a week ago, an adolescent girl riding her bike down the street fell over right in front of our house. Cat rushed out the door to see if she was OK. The girl professed to be just fine and said not to worry about her. Waving off Cat's "Are you sure?" she pedaled on down the street. I'm thinking it might have been her.
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Wow! I've never been that close to a thunderstorm! Come to think of it, don't think I want to but I did like the photo.
Perhaps it was the girl riding on her bike down the street - perhaps it wasn't. Are you going to ask her??? Sometimes it's nice just making up possible stories - has an air of mystery about it.
Carolanne, you missed a series of stories that several of us wrote a couple of years ago. They started off when one of us would post to another person's blog something like, "Wow, I just can't get the image out of my mind from that time when you actually told Bono his glasses looked stupid! And there we were in front of his parents!" Then the "tagged" blogger would have to make up a story to go with the comment. It was pretty funny. It started here.
COOL photo! I am way jealous. (I think I heard that BOOM during my class. Made me lose my place for a minutes. ha ha)
I am jealous as well! It is a cool photo. I hope to catch me a lightning bolt (with my camera) some day.
Cool story about the little girl! It parallels a story that just happened to me. Maybe I'll write about it on my blog.
We were dow the road from you trying to get in our first tourney game for our softball league. We quickly had the game called of due to the heavenly firework show.
As our league President said, I dont mind playing in the rain but I sure do not want to be responsible for having a bunch of little girls running around with lightning rods (metal bats) in their hands.
As far as your chalk writer, I would not put it past Rachel. She does carry a box of chalk in her backpack when she rides her bike. She claims that it is just to write her SOS signal for planes if she gets in trouble, but I have noticed the Graffiti rate has increased since she has gotten her bike.
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