It was beastly hot earlier in the day, but now the sky has grown ominously dark. There are faint rumbles of thunder, and rain is falling steadily, although not all that hard. Based on the radar map, there are at least two waves of storms coming through.

Knowing the phone company the way I do, I have my doubts that the internet will remain on the whole time — after all, there’s a service interruption whenever a bluebird perches on the server box, or a cow scratches her back against it, so a real slam-bang storm is bound to knock it out.

It’s also possible that the electricity will go off, but the electric co-op is more reliable than the phone company. So we’ll see.

Anyway, if the site goes dead and comments stop getting approved, you’ll know why.

The rain is welcome — we’ve been in a severe drought for a month — but I could do without all the boom and bang.