Weather report
We had hellacious weather here last night. It seemed to spring up out of nowhere - one second it was sprinkling lightly and the next the wind caught my screen door and slammed it back against the front of the house. I was afraid it was going to tear the thing right off the hinges. The siding on the house moaned (it does that when there's a high wind from certain directions) and it started hailing; the wind was so strong the hail bypassed the overhang of my porch and pelted the picture window. I found myself standing in the dining room, caught between the two large windows and wondering if a chunk of something was going to fly through the glass, and debating bailing for the basement... and just as suddenly as it started, it was over. Totally bizarre. This a.m. there were branches down all over the neighborhood, but the damage wasn't nearly as bad as I had anticipated. (It made me have dreams that the crabapple tree in the back yard split down the middle and took down the fence.) Haven't been over to the park to see if any of the big trees came down. Poor Murphy caught my anxiety and kept watching me for the signal to run, I think. As soon as it was done I said to him, "We're good! we're good!" because my sister says you don't want to reinforce for the dog that something *is* wrong by telling him "it's OK" (which implies that it's OK to be anxious.) Not sure if that's true, but he settled right down with his bone and I went back to what I was doing. SO weird.