OK, I am "home sick" today (I'm always home, but I took the day off torching due to nasty lung congestion and general illness) and so a few minutes ago I went to the neighborhood store for beer, raisins and bananas (I wanted whisky to put in hot tea for the congestion, but my local liquor store takes cash only and I don't feel like dealing with it) and as I came out into the sunshine, I heard a boom of thunder. Looking up I noticed that there was a large black cloud just to the north.
I came home and opened a delightful little box full of silver and lampwork (from Nicole, and it's GORGEOUS stuff), and then just a moment later I heard a sound like someone had opened a fire hydrant on the street. I jumped up and looked outside... the sky had opened up and was dumping water on the street in sheets! The drops were tablespoon-size, at least!
The wierd thing, totally amusingly bizzarre, is that the rain STOPS AT THE STREET. OK, not *quite* the street... it comes all the way up to my front steps, and that's it. Sitting where I am, looking out the side and the back windows all the way around the house, you can't tell it's raining at all. Not a drop has fallen in the back yard. It's still raining out front, though not as hard now. I've had this happen for just a few minutes, until some portion of the cloud made its way over us, but I've never had an entire thunderstorm go by in the front yard only!
I guess this means I'll still have to water the trees in back.