About a week ago the rice began to appear in the fields.

A sign that summer is almost at an end here.

Which would be really great because it’s done nothing but rain non-stop for the past week.

We had a really big storm slowly roll over us a couple of nights ago.

Big booming thunder & sharp cracks of lightning – right on top of us for a good hour or so.

It’s been so long since Maggie’s heard a thunderstorm that it really started to scare her.

We just don’t get big, loud roaring storms here at Humphreys.

So when a huge clap of thunder woke me up about 4am I looked around for Moo-Moo.

“No Mom…don’t tell ‘em….it’s too embarrassing!”

I found her out on the couch on the top landing…visibly shaking.

Terrified of the storm.

Which is going to be a problem if we ever get back to Texas.

I know not to comfort her when she’s scared – it only reinforces that she should be scared.

So I sat on the couch next to her & tried to remind her that she was born in Oklahoma in the Spring.