Tuesday, I got home from work around 3:30. I put on some shorts and a tee shirt, put on
my Ipod and went out to work in the back yard.
It was hot and mostly sunny as I cut up some falling limbs. As I worked, I could see a couple male deer
across the creek, may be 25 yards from where I was working. It is always special watching the deer in our
yard. One of the two deer had a large
rack of antlers and the other was smaller with a smaller rack. I finished the job after some 90 minutes and
went back in the house to shower and clean up for the evening.
The Lovely Sharon made dinner. We were both tired and we ate in relative
silence. By 6:30, the clouds had come in
in such intensity that it was almost dark.
The clouds looked ominous and it looked like we were in for heavy
weather.
After dinner, I headed down to the Bud Cave to relax while
the Lovely Sharon crashed upstairs on the family room sofa. At 7:00 o’clock it started to rain, a hard
rain. I decided to watch the rain
outside sitting on a chair on our lower covered patio. As I
sat there and watched the rain, the thunder started and the lightening
followed. Our house was right in the middle of what became a huge rain
storm. There were numerous crashes of
thunder followed almost immediately by lightning and it rained as hard as I can
remember for a Utah rain. I was happy to
be nestled against the house, feeling protected from the elements as the rain came
harder and faster.
As I looked down into the back yard, I spotted two deer in
the trees down by the creek. I assumed
it was the same two deer I saw earlier when I was working in the yard. They looked nervous in the thunder and
lightning and moved quickly from tree to bush and bush to tree. After a few minutes I could no longer see
them through the brush and the rain.
Around 7:30 the rain slowed down and the sky lightened. What a wonderful summer thunderstorm, that
reminded me of some of the thunderstorms I saw as a boy.
As the rain finally stopped, I ventured back into the Bud
Cave. I was glad I watched the storm
from the patio.
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