Riding Out The Storm

Here in Big D we've been experiencing some freakish stormy weather. It's sunny and beautiful all day and then at night there've been hailstorms and such that have produced all sorts of power outages and such. It may happen tonight, too.

Anyway, my daughter Shelby and I have been reading C.S.Lewis' "Chronicles of Narnia" out loud to each other for the last two weeks (that's why it's been under "Books I'm Digging" for so long), usually about a chapter a night.

Last night, we saw the storm warnings but it was still nice out, so we decided to get outside and read before it got here. We got a few chapters in, and then the wind picked up, the clouds rolled in, the temperature dropped about 20 degrees...and it smelled like impending storm. Shelby noticed and said she "loves that smell."

It was an incredibly unique experience, sitting under our huge willow tree, storm rolling in, raising your voice to make sure your daughter can hear the story of Aslan above the noise of the wind in the tree above us, being chilly outside in Texas in June. Very nifty way to spend an early evening.