All Powerful

Honestly, farm life is never boring and will always keep you on your toes. Last night was just another example...

It was hot and muggy, so all the windows in the house were left wide open. At about 4 o'clock in the afternoon it became black. Everthing was dark and something didn't feel right about that at all. I look out the window and, sure enough, massive thunderheads billowed just south of us. The sky turned an ominous hazy green and pinkish-brown. Who wouldn't be thinking "tornado" hasn't done very much studying on weather. Then the wind hit - hard. I've never seen a storm front come in that fast! As if on cue, all of the south facing doors inside the house slammed shut as we were rushing to close ever single window.

Once we closed the house down- my mom remembered all the animals and patio furniture we had outside. My brother and I bundled up to close the chicken coop and barn, but the dust was already kicked up and leaves and branches and who knows what else was flying everywhere! It felt like a Winnie the Pooh moment... What a blustery day! We got the girl llamas in, barn shut (except for the slight opening for the swallows that nest in there!), chick tractor secured, and loose yard art collected, we went inside thinking we were done with battling the uncontrolable forces of the weather.

We forgot about our male llamas in the neighbor's pasture - down the big hill - but by this time it had started dumping the hugest raindrops I had ever seen, and our neighbor warned us that it might hail- big time! It didn't take long to get down the hill (we were running, bad for you knees though...). When we reached the pasture gate you couldn't see the nearby water trough. That's how hard and fast it was raining. Keeping half and eye on the ominous sky above and trudging through deep, wet grass we finally reached the llamas. They didn't move very quickly back up the hill... so by the time we reached the barn we were soaked through. I wish humans could get water by osmosis... but it we did, we most likely would drown in cases like this...

Anyway... Dad got home from work and, of course, the weather lightened up a bit with some sunshine! But then we went inside and it started raining again. Later that evening there was a showy thunder and lightening storm but no tornados in our area. Thank God!!! My mom says that it's times like this that prepare us for the actual thing, which I would really rather not think about...