Early, stormy, kinda hectic day

We had some storms today. I couldn't get pictures of the first one coming because I was closing everything and making sure things were battened down. They didn't last very long but the winds and thunder were impressive. Today was also the first day of the Summer CSA. We had people coming to the farm to pick up vegetables and we had to be up for 6 in the morning in order to have everything packed and ready to go. I got to feed the horses some watermelon in the evening. Normally the farmers are with me when I do but this time I did it by myself! They came when I called - but I think they figured out I had food. I was a little too nervous to hold out the watermelon with my fingers so I set it in the palm of my hand and even then my hand would end up in their mouths. They're really nice and gentle horses though and none of them chomped on my fingers (though they did get a lot of goopy, green (from the melon rinds), saliva all over my hand). The last highlight to the day was playing with the kittens. One I think got caught in the rain and was all wet. I then went to find my favourite (the one with the black spot on her chin). It was decided in jest to call her Howie Mandell because of the position of the black spot so I call her Howie. Whenever she sits in my lap she's never still, she's usually crawling across my stomach, back, over my shoulder, grabbing my hands and then chewing or licking my fingers. I picked her up as I headed to feed the chickens dinner and she climbed onto my shoulder and sat there all the way to the house (where I sought in vain to show someone how cool Howie is). She jumped off by the wood bins and landed on her face - so much for cats always landing on their feet. Oh! One last thing. I think Frankie purposely played a prank/power play on Louie. Frankie sat and watched Louie until he closed his eyes, then pounced and scared the poor cat.

Normally you can see the next farm, but the cloud cover and rain was too thick.

You can barely make out the end of the second greenhouse - mostly because it's a similar colour to the sky - but cool nonetheless!

This was the second storm where I just caught it coming over. 

It wasn't as bright as this picture makes you think. It was fairly dark with those storm clouds. The wind really tussled the birch tree.

Another cool shot of the clouds spreading towards...whatever town lies over there

Cloud formation before the rain started

It's pretty hard to make out but there was a fine mist shooting off of the top of the van  (you can see a bit of it in the black of the window) with the force of the rain and wind.