Javelina

 

I sat down to watch the local noon news.   The weatherman showed two fingers of thunderstorms racing northward - directly toward my location.  I checked the radar on my computer and it claimed the fingers would reach here in a little over an hour.  It did also indicate the storms would pass on either side of me.   Found that hard to believe since the storms were less than 30 miles apart.  I raced outside to take off the clothes on the line.  They were dry anyway.  Then I revved up Svaldilfari and started mowing the lawn.  On my list of things to do today was 'mow lawn' and I really wanted to get something off my list.  Bright and sunny still outside but I could hear the low rumble of thunder.  I put on my sunglasses but once I got going the dark clouds took over the sky.  I mowed the lawn in sections - front, side, other side, back - thinking if I was stopped by rain it would be easier to tell what had been mowed later.  Lots of thunder and some lightening strikes (kept mowing though thoughts of "The Bad Seed" ending were in my mind).  Finished mowing everything and came inside.  Believe it or not, except for a few sprinkles, the thunderstorms did pass on either side.  Well, at least everything is mowed.   Unless there is an intervening frost, I won't need to do it again until October.

Picture taken by Kathy Novey near McDonald Observatory.