This, That and The Other Thing~ The lightning edition.

Lately if I'm able to get a blog post together, they seem to be best in small random doses.

This:
Linds traveled with some friends recently. Since she and Lolo live together and Lolo works 12 hour shifts, Lo really depends on Lindsay to help her with Max. (Lolo's baby) Well, who gets to fill in when Linds is unavailable?
G'ma and G'pa. Or in this case, just G'ma since G'pa was off coaching softball. Max had 8 days at our house; Callie and Cocoa seemed to enjoy the change of pace.

Max loves us all....but he REALLY loves his Mama!
He couldn't get enough of her when she came to retrieve him.

That:
Speaking of dogs.....we've had some atrotious rain storms with a lot of lightning. I caught the dogs enjoying some front door sunshine one day after a big storm had passed.
*sigh, we survived another one*

The other thing:

Speaking of storms.
On Sunday afternoon it was PERFECTLY clear in our front when a bolt of lightning hit a tree.
I actually saw it out of my peripheral. Scared the bejesus out of me. It started a fire in the tree.....I had to call 911. (my first time!) Luckily, since we've been having so much rain, it went out fairly fast. A deputy was on our street and came immediately followed by the firemen.

The victim tree is in the middle of this cluster.

All is well, but I was shaken up. It's about 30-40 feet from our front door and I was thinking of all the times I'm outside piddling around in the gardens....with not a worry in the world.

It reminded me of when we were on vacation about 10 years ago and came home to a hole (the size of a basketball) in our tile roof and our appliances/tv's were going bonkers. We'd been hit by lightening and luckily our house did not catch on fire.

On Monday a friend was here working on our electronics (lot of issues from the Sunday bolt) when he was walking to his truck something and a bolt of lightening hit just outside of our property.
WHAT? It's like we have a target on our home or something.

So scary.
It blew out our a/c, security system, gate keypad, water system and some home automation.

We're slowing getting everything working again and we know how lucky we are; it could always be worse.

Mother Nature is angry about something and I swear it isn't me!! I'm doing more than my fair share.

Now I'm super paranoid about being outside.....I'm gonna go pasty white and misplace lots of caterpillars.  Woe is me....