Ka-Boom!!!

That is what our weather did all night last night…well into the morning hours.  We were under a sever thunderstorm warning from around 1:00 am-9:00 am.  A long time.

I enjoy a nice thunderstorm.  The lightening flashes light up the sky.  The rolling sound of thunder.  How the buds on the trees take on a bright green hue. It is pretty.  It is exhilarating.

Paxton, however, would disagree with me.

Paxton is such a weenie.  What a sissy of a dog!  For all of his ferociousness when people come to visit, he is chicken.

Last night, Paxton was sound asleep on his cushion by my side of the bed.  The very first boom of thunder, and Zoom!  Off he ran to hide in the hall bathroom.  His preferred hiding place is under my husband’s desk in the office but MFH (My Favorite Husband) had pushed in his chair when he left the office yesterday and there was no room for poor, pudgy Paxton to get under the desk.  The hall bathroom would have to suffice.

The call of Paxton’s cushion was strong, so, when there was a lull in the weather, he would come back and snuggle down into his cushion again.

Ka-Boom!  and off Paxton would run.  The tags on his collar going “jingle, jingle, jingle” as he ran from the room.  There he would cower on the bath mat in the hall bathroom.

Pretty soon, I would hear, “Jingle, jingle, jingle” and a puppy sigh as he settled back onto his cushion.

Ka-Boom!  “Jingle, jingle, jingle….”

We did that all. night. long.

Poor dog is tired.  So am I!

Tonight’s weather promises to be tame.  Maybe we can get some sleep?