Hail Stones and Shifty Weather

Sun, clouds, half sun, half clouds. Thunder. Lightning. Still some blue sky.

I don’t usually report on the weather but my sister and I have relocated to the midwest and with a flat terrain, it’s different to experience weather with a giant bowl of a sky overhead instead of jigsaw puzzle pieces of sky, broken up by buildings and trees and land.

Maura got a penny so we could compare the size of the hailstones. She called it the “ice show”

The kids ran around and collected them and put them on the concrete drive. Steam rose from the asphalt after the storm as the temperature had been so hot.

The newest addition to the family – Airedale Terrier puppy Henry.

Here is he checking out the hailstones.

Late Afternoon Ohio Sky

Tall shadow at dusk

All the leaves are down and the sky is gray

I heard a loud machine sound out my bedroom window this morning. No school today. I shot this right through the screen and glass and need to pull the storm windows down. It was a vehicle with a strong leaf blower. Hmmmm. The tree muncher arrived later to chew up a few branches that fell on the park across the street.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside

Inside seems simple enough. Until you start to read all the definitions and think about the multi-meanings

Cut and pasted from Your Dictionary – the dictionary you can understand

noun

the part lying within; inner side, surface, or part; interior
the part closest to something specified or implied, as the part of a sidewalk closest to the buildings
INFORMAL the internal organs of the body, as the stomach and intestines

adjective

on or in the inside; internal
of or suited for the inside
working or used indoors; indoor
☆ known only to insiders; secret or private: the inside story
BASEBALL passing between home plate and the batter

adverb

on or to the inside; within
indoors

in or to the inside or inner part of

within the limits of: inside an hour

Murphy inside the van looking outside.

Cool enough on Friday to take Murphy to the Post Office so I could mail something. He WAS in the back seat. Moved himself up to the passenger seat while Maura and I were inside and wouldn’t budge for the short trip home. Yes, I worried about air bag deployment and the seat belt dinging alarm sound the whole way. We made it. He does have a harness that attaches to a seat belt for car trips.

We were safe inside the house as Mark held the iPad showing the violent storm while I shot the rain and blowing trees outside. This is the storm where Laura and James lost power for 5 days and Marlene and Donald( Roanoke VA) lost it for 8.

Maura waits inside looking outside for the guests.