Think It Will Rain?!?

This robin looks dry...and he was at this moment...but the way weather is going these days...give him a bit of time and his feathers will be dripping!

Woody got up and walked four miles early this morning.  He said that it looked threatening off in the distance and that he heard a few rumbles, but made it without getting wet.  I really didn't pay a lot of attention to the weather...but when I started off for breakfast with my Sunday School class I thought that it was going to be a dry humid morning.  I even cracked the moon roof on the car so the heat wouldn't build up in the car...big mistake on my part!  It was very pleasant out on the deck of the home where we had our breakfast.  There was even a bit of a breeze blowing so it didn't seem all that hot.  We all gathered and ate outside and then were sitting around on the deck...moving our chairs to keep out of the sun...when we started hearing rumbles.  The rumbles kept getting closer...close enough that we decided that we would gather food up, etc. and go inside to continue our visiting.  BUT I didn't think about the moon roof being cracked on my car...didn't think about it till it was pouring and the lightning was flashing!  This is a time that I was glad for leather seats...a couple of borrowed towels and the seats were dried off.  It was a very heavy thunderstorm...it got about as dark as late evening and the rain just poured down and the lightning and thunder were both quite intense.  Radar on phones let us know when there was going to be a bit of a break in the storm...didn't completely stop raining but it lightened up enough and the lightning moved on and we were able to get in our cars and head back into town.  We had more storms come through after I got home.

Woody went outside after the storms were over and checked the rain gauge...THREE INCHES for this storm.  Summer has certainly been rainy so far.  We must remember these wet days when the days get dry as we move farther into the summer.  At the moment, though, drought is pretty far from our minds!

Despite the rain and storminess of the day, the ladies in our Sunday School class who gathered together this morning had a wonderful time...as we always do.  At the height of the storm, we just continued enjoying each other's company sharing stories from our lives with each other.  Such good friends!