The masked heeler heard it first. While we were still in bed, enjoying a lazy morning breakfast with the newspaper and crossword.

Wind.

Following by distant boomb-a-looms.

Yeah. Three days in a row of rain and thunderstorms. Well, actually, that's five days in a row. But the last three matter, 'cause they took the entire three-day weekend.

So much for going north to look at flowers, or south to look at huge snowdrifts. Or northwest to look for frogs.

But to top it off, today's morning storms took the internet. Both the DSL and cable. Nothing to do on the computer except download images to dvds to free up some hard drive space.

And yeah, some actual office work. (Don't tell anyone. That's not allowed on holidays without express permission. I'll just say I did it on Sunday...)

So. Fifteen minutes ago, internet was restored.

And five minutes ago I was joined by two trembling heelers.

Yeah. More lightning.

Better save this while I can...