Wednesday July 4, 2007

Rainbow Butte

This morning I put on my USA t-shirt with the stars and stripes on the front to celebrate Independence Day. Made Joe pancakes and sausage for breakfast. He's sure on some strange kind of cholesterol blood pressure diet, but guess he can use the calories for certain. I ate my oatmeal. Spent time on WAOW work at the computer today and was able to send off the April/May/June WAOW Now Board Perspectives letter to Kendra and Jackie for review. There was a power surge and I was sure I lost the letter when the power went off. I was so discouraged, but when I got the computer back on it was mostly there in the file. I immediate looked up help for "auto save" and set that for every 5 minutes. Luckily it was set for every 15 minutes and I lucked out that most of the letter was saved. I'm glad I got the letter off because Jackie can send it to Mary Ann for the West Wind newsletter for me. I'll have to call her.

Debbie called and we got to talk for a while. Everything is fine with them. She's going to have a little surgery in a couple of days.

It was a gorgeous day until later in the afternoon. Then we began to see and hear fireworks from heaven. I gave Sparky a couple of doses of his thunder medicine for anxiety, but he worried – and panted - until the storm was over and stuck to my legs or sat in Joe's lap. Raven was also a little worried. Joe asked for German potato salad for dinner, and I made it early in case the power went off.

We got quite a fierce thunderstorm with hard wind, and a pretty good rain that didn't last for long. It dampened the ground. I was in the back bedroom watching the wind blow the trees. There was a terrific flash with a loud snap and sizzle or kind of a hiss - which was lightning striking so close there was no sound of thunder. The first thing I thought of was the two dishes on that side of the house, but when I looked they seemed to be alright. I was sure the other TV, my computer and everything else would be fried. The only thing that seems not to be working is my hughes.net internet connection. I may have to call them tomorrow to see if the equipment is o.k. or if there is something they can tell me to do to get it reconnected. Maybe it just lost my information. Joe thought perhaps the lightning struck the roof. When the rain stopped, I went out to check on the satellite dishes, the roof and the cats and horses, and everything seemed intact and safe. The lightning and thunder went on for quite a while.

When I was under the desk trying to do the reconnect thing with the internet equipment, I got up after unplugging- replugging and saw the sky was all colorful. There was a beautiful rainbow, and I got a couple of photos of it – and thought of the promise in the bible the Lord gave us about storms. Although it wasn't full the other end of it was a fourth away across the sky. I suppose I might have missed the best of it while I was sitting under the desk. It's been a very long time since we had a rainbow. It rained hard again for a while. So thankful for the moisture. Of course I worried about my flower pots in the wind, but I think they are o.k. too.

Seldom Seen Sam or is it Tom – The Father Cat "Traveler "