ka...BOOM!!!

Holy schnikes!!! Andrew got initiated to a Minnesota thunderstorm big time! He was fixing dinner, Daniel was off at the corner house and Aaron and I were in the dining room. It had been thundering most of the day and raining off and on when all of a sudden, abut 45 minutes ago, there was a brilliant flash of light that seemed to completely surround us in the house followed by what may have been the loudest crack of a thunderbolt I've ever heard. To illustrate how close it was, we were unable to count to ONE... It was DIRECTLY OVERHEAD and the house shook as if we were feeling God's wrath focused on 716 Duluth Avenue North. Shortly after, I got a call from the pastor's wife three houses down to advise me Daniel was scared witless and needed to come home, but it was a torrential downpour the likes of which Seattle has never seen and he didn't have an umbrella, so I escorted the eldest Widerski boy, Tyler, over there under the golf umbrella and brought Danny back. I saw a Pennington County Sheriff's cruiser drive by us with his lights on and stop only a block down by 8th. I'm wondering if a tree may have been hit down there...

I was beginning to wonder when we were going to get some more good thunder going. It was supposed to be thunderstorms all week and late last night they streamed warnings on the television screen of flash floods, floods, and tornados in about 12 different counties across the tri-state area of ND, SD, and MN. I guess today was the big day for it. I knew it was going to be some bad weather when the dog elected to do her business just inside the back door entryway rather than ask to be let outside... I think I saw her tail stuck between her legs last time I let her out to do #1... :o) That's an indoor dog for ya.

As for me, I'm healing well from the other day's visit to the dentist. I don't have anymore pain, but I still have 98 Percocets left over for "headaches." :o) I even called the pharmacy and asked the pharmacist to verify the script and he told me yes, the doctor wrote it out as "hundred," so it couldn't have been a mistake. Maybe they just dispense pain medication in TRF in advance for the year...?

I gotta go now as the power is flickering again.

Ciao!