The word spread through town mid-afternoon, some heavy weather is on the way, a cold front with hail, rain, high winds. Tomorrow, cold and stormy. Put the things that might blow around away. We were in town hanging up posters for the Open House on June 25-26, just a few weeks away.

We let the animals out to graze and looked up and we saw the storm blowing in from the West, it came sailing right over the hills, pushing the blue skies away, the temperature dropped, the wind picked up. More rain, we said, good for the grass, the crops and the flowers. But it did look kind of heavy. We are putting the things away that need to be put away.