itsmecindi
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.....the fourth of July doesn't have anything on what happened around here this afternoon. A storm blew up, you could see it coming for miles, gray ribbons of rain falling out of a sky almost purple black. It was obvious it was going to be a bad one. Fred and I looked at each other simultaneously.
"We'd best go feed before the bottom falls out." He said. I nodded.
We started out moving calmly and smoothly despite the fact that the wind had kicked up to thirty mile an hour gusts. Chickens were blowing around the yard like empty paper bags. The lightning and the thunder were coming pretty quick by the time we got all the pigs fed and had moved on to the goats. We were both running around like hunchbacks, trying to present smaller targets for the lightning.
"Cut the water on!" Fred yelled, so that he could top off the goats water tub. I did. Bout that time lightning struck so close it shook the ground.
"Cut the water OFF!" Fred yelled again. "To heck with 'em, their fixin' to get all the water they can use!"
He tossed the hose and came running across the pasture, his knuckles practically dragging the ground. I almost laughed out loud, he looked like something straight out of planet of the apes.
We made it in the house just as the big drops started falling. It didn't matter which window you looked out of, which direction, there was lightning streaking from sky to ground all around us. I don't know what kept us from getting hit. As scary as it was, it was still beautiful.
"We'd best go feed before the bottom falls out." He said. I nodded.
We started out moving calmly and smoothly despite the fact that the wind had kicked up to thirty mile an hour gusts. Chickens were blowing around the yard like empty paper bags. The lightning and the thunder were coming pretty quick by the time we got all the pigs fed and had moved on to the goats. We were both running around like hunchbacks, trying to present smaller targets for the lightning.
"Cut the water on!" Fred yelled, so that he could top off the goats water tub. I did. Bout that time lightning struck so close it shook the ground.
"Cut the water OFF!" Fred yelled again. "To heck with 'em, their fixin' to get all the water they can use!"
He tossed the hose and came running across the pasture, his knuckles practically dragging the ground. I almost laughed out loud, he looked like something straight out of planet of the apes.
We made it in the house just as the big drops started falling. It didn't matter which window you looked out of, which direction, there was lightning streaking from sky to ground all around us. I don't know what kept us from getting hit. As scary as it was, it was still beautiful.
