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I didn't sleep very well last night because a really rollicking thunderstorm.

Heavy downpour with chunks. Frequent lightning.

I couldn't even count between flash and thunder. But not because they were so close together. The thunder was continuous and I mostly couldn't associate any particular rumble with any particular flash.

After about 15 minutes of continuous thunder I was moving past awe into "well, I'd really like to start relaxing soon."

Then it ended abruptly and I thought my ears had popped because it was so very quiet. I finally realized that I could actually hear my computer in the next room and wasn't deaf.  Then I heard a rumble of thunder off in the distance and began to relax because the storm was moving on.

We had a really pretty dry winter up here in Colorado. Not drought, but not stellar snowfall totals either.

However, we've been having a drenching springtime. Afternoon thunderstorms every single day for several weeks. This is normally what we get later in the summer, which hasn't even started yet.

It's making for a difficult time mowing the lawns, because it's always pretty wet and I have a mulching lawnmower.

You learn some unexpected lessons as well. Like the fact that it doesn't actually require 5 minutes to disassemble my bike and stow it in the back of my car. There's nothing like a brilliant flash, a deafening boom and echoing rumbles, accompanied by 2 centimeter droplets of very cold water to encourage you to find elusive efficiencies in your procedures.

But what will be the cost?

Bzzzzzzt.

Mosquitos. T'ousands and t'ousands of mosquitos.

Okay, so I've killed one. But that's the first I've seen up here in a couple of years. I'm just predicting the t'ousands. But you wait and see. We'll get 'em, you betcha.

I'm typing this as fast as I can because the thunderbumpers are going on outside.

It's not only because I think that I might lose power and thus my edits, but also because I like to watch thunderstorms.

Say, that's not just rumbling. There are some mighty hefty sounding droplets. And they are bouncin', too.