Man, it was a hot one today! Thankfully, our little pocket of land we call home is being blessed with a summer evening thunderstorm, bringing with it a cool rain and a lovely breeze...the ultimate sleeping weather!
The distant thunder, with its low rumbling, sounds like a far away giant muttering to his children to "go to bed!" Flashes of lightening are my transient nightlight, all at once illuminating our bedroom with a flash of bright white...and then, just like that, back to complete darkness.
Farmer J will sit quietly and still in one of the rockers on the front porch, watching the storm pass by; I imagine, just as the original farmer would have done "way back when", some 100 years ago. J will watch the storm roll over the fields of corn and alfalfa, all the while thinking of the farm work that waits for him to do tomorrow...when the weather will be less pleasant. But that's tomorrow and right NOW the weather is perfect, with the lightening bugs flashing in the tens of thousands as far as the eye can see.
J will stay awake until the breeze has slowed to a halt, and the humid air has crept back in, like a low moving fog. Then he'll shut up the house and head to bed.
The forecast for tomorrow...more of the same. We can take it, just as long as there are homemade blueberry pancakes fried up in a cast iron pan for breakfast. What a sweet last image for us to imagine before bed!
