P is for Pets

Well, if you don’t know by now, I have 2 dogs and 2 cats. This post is mostly going to be about my dogs though.

Right now it’s storming. If you have pets, then you know they can sense a storm long before we can. If you can learn to read your pets behavior, then you will know that bad weather is coming, almost as soon as they do. My pets are much calmer in the hours before a storm. By hours, I mean all day. My male, Vader, won’t go outside by himself all day, and not at all just a few hours before the storm. My female, Karma, pastes herself to someone, or tires to hide under the table or in a corner.

It’s storming right now, which is why this is my topic today. I have Karma behind me on my bed, occasionally pawing at me. And I can hear Vader running around downstairs barking every time he sees lightning.

Vader is our guard dog. He protects our property and airspace from any intruders. No birds or planes can fly over our house and no cars can come anywhere near our street.  Yet, he’s terrified of thunderstorms. He barks the whole time so watching TV or having a conversation is completely out of the question. Books are good to have. If you can read with all that noise. The only way to calm him down is to take him in a room with no windows and talk, non-stop, to him for the entire storm. If you stop talking and he hears thunder,all the calming you’ve done is gone.

Anyway, the storm seems to be going away now. Karma has calmed down some and Vader isn’t barking as much.

)O(

Weekly Photo Challenge: A Fleeting Moment (in the street)

Ok, I don’t live anywhere near a street where people do anything other than drive. Because I don’t drive, it would take me about two hours to walk into town and with the heat we’ve had recently, that’s completely out of the question. Also, I have been sick for over a week now so walking two hours in the heat is not going to happen.  
We’ve had some pretty nasty (totally awesome) storms here lately so I decided to capture a few bolts of lightning. that’s a fleeting moment right? Here’s one of the clearer pictures.

It was pretty hard to have the camera pointed at the exact spot at the exact time the lightning struck since it seemed to be coming from every direction. Luckily the bolts came pretty quickly so the chances of getting a shot were increased.

Well, since I live in the middle on no where, my Fleeting moment is a bolt of lightning. Cool? Don’t think so? get over it.