Blustery Day's

As proven by the current drought situation, storms are few and far between. But we do really love it when they come !! They are extremely refreshing, and who doesn't enjoy a good lighting/thunderstorm :-) Here is a little break in the clouds to the Northwest up the river.

One thing is for sure; when a storm hits here, it is hard and fast... These winds were gusting around 40-45 knots.

YES! We have been praying for rain. When we arrived here the middle of January, the water was well into the grass line. The level changes every day, but mostly it is way lower than any normal depth. The travel lift is starting to have a hard time lifting boats out of the slipway.

Drake, heading into the gusting wind...

Valin, enjoying the challenge of running out the dust storm.

Blayde, soaking wet.... and loving it!!

The wind was so strong that the chair you see on the right, blew all the way down the hallway that Nathalie is standing in, and almost off the porch.

Olivier, yelling at Tamer across the yard, to prepare everything for one heck of a storm.

A Couple of days later, just in time for our Sunday potluck, an even bigger storm arrived. I now understand what the term "raining buckets" means! I have never experienced such a concentrated amount of rain before. We had to go outside to fix the tarp that had come off of the Lathe, and were both completely soaked in less than 60 seconds!

Because of the above problem, we ended up staging the Potluck out of the Women's bathroom.... For obvious reasons (I shouldn't have to go into much detail here), the Men's bathroom was NOT an option :-)

The boys had the only semi-dry seats in the house, and were "Freezing" all throughout dinner.

Although not a very good quality of picture, a rare one of lightning.