If it isn’t one thing it is another. It seems as if we are having a lot of bad luck when it comes to weather as of late. First it was the Tornado on Mother’s Day and now we get struck by lightning! It started last night with a rather nasty thunderstorm. My husband was watching out our back door when all of a sudden we heard…”ZZZZzzzzzAAAAAPPPPP KA-POW!” Lightning struck a utility pole directly behind our house. As if they loud noise and flashing light didn’t scared the bejeezes out of us, the lightning ran through our electrical wires demagnetizing the television, blowing up our internet router, burning up my laptop battery, and killing my parent’s stove. Our practically brand-new HD television now has nice green lines on either side of the picture. The internet is just pointless, even after hubby spent all day Tuesday getting it to work properly. It is plug & play for the internet problem until we can buy a new router. My graphical designs are on hold AGAIN due to my windows laptops battery fry-age. My mother called shortly after the explosion and said that her router and stove were both fried.

Ahhh, mother nature, we love you but you can be a real pain sometimes!!!

To make matters a little bit more creepy, something very weird happened last night. A good couple of hours after the storm when all signs of rain were gone, I went to my parent’s house to see if I could borrow an old router of theirs to see if we could get it to work at our house. After trotting back home, I found a little toad on the road so I decided to take him home to show hubby. With toad in toe, I handed the router off to my husband so he could hopefully work his magic and went to my deck to put the toad in his new home. Everything was fine and normal on the deck. A few minutes later, I remembered that I bought some fish earlier that day for the pond outside and that I needed to let them out of their baggy. I did that and still the deck looked normal. An hour or so later I go to the deck to get my dog’s leash so that I could walk him one last time before heading off to bed. But this time something was off…

Can you tell what is missing from this picture?

My umbrella!!! My umbrella was missing. Where did it go??? I looked around to see where it could have possibly gone. At first I thought that someone had stolen my umbrella and then thought why the heck would they steal an umbrella?

There it is!!! Somehow in the non-windy situation it had gotten picked up and moved to the back door? Creepy? Yes, I think so. I don’t understand how an umbrella can be picked up out of the center of the table and then moved to the back door without knocking something over or making a lot of noise. I went and picked up the umbrella this morning and let me say that that thing is heavy. It may not look very heavy but for me it was a pain to try and get it back into the table. It took me at least ten minutes to get it back into the center of the table. Why would an umbrella just up and move when the storm had been over for several hours. What could have caused this? I think my umbrella is possessed!

Even after battling the weather for yet another time, I am thankful that we did not get more damage then we did. I am thankful most of all that my mac lappy, ipod touch, and my graphics computer are not damaged except for a blown battery. Really if you think about it could have been so much worse since all of my favorite items were plugged into the wall when the lightning struck, like it could have fried the computers and not just their batteries. I guess since the tornado took out most of the trees that lightning has nothing else to strike but utility poles or houses now.

What do you think about the creepy umbrella? You can tell in the first photo that nothing else was knocked over, moved, or damaged. Really, you wouldn’t know anything was missing unless you expected the umbrella. Is my umbrella possessed?