Come On, Let's Rumble

Remember when we were kids and we heard rumbles of thunder, we used to say that the angels were bowling up in heaven? That's exactly what it sounded like just now. We're in for more thunderstorms again today.

Do you also notice that the weather guy or girl hardly says thunder showers anymore, it's almost always thunderstorms, at least it is around here. This time of year we also have to watch out for severe storms. We're pretty used to them by now, but we still don't like them. We saw one tornado and that was quite enough, thank you very much!

The dogs are really good about thunderstorms, they mostly sleep through them. If the storms become too loud, they do wake up, but they don't get really nervous and look for places to hide. We used to have a dog when I was growing up that did that. She was a German shepherd and would try to find the smallest places to hide.

The dogs don't like the storm cellar though. I don't blame them, I don't like it either. We try to keep from having to go into it as much as possible. Dave is looking into ways of replacing it since it's flooded out a few times, making it inhabitable. It's also dark and damp, like an old cellar. We lived in a house that had a basement like that when we first moved here to Iowa. That basement definitely fell into the classification of dark and damp. I hated going down there to do laundry.

We can use a few showers about now to water the crops in the field, but not a lot, not a washout. My heart goes out to all of those farmers down south who have had their crops flooded. We've seen that here in Iowa too.

It's here, the rain that is. It's coming down pretty good, thank goodness no one has to go anywhere today. I hate driving in heavy rain. The mailman just came before it started, so that's taken care of. Rolli was outside but I brought her in when I got the mail, so all pups are accounted for. She likes being outside when it's warm.

More thunder. I take that back about the dogs not minding it. Max doesn't like it much, but he's still pretty good about it.