Sound and Fury

There's nothing like a good, old-fashioned midwest thunderstorm to rattle your eardrums like no woofer ever could. We, having never actually experienced a tornado, are of the school of idiots who run outside to see what's going on when the tornado sirens go off.

They went off last weekend while we were a couple hundred miles away in Rhinelander, and the forewarned tornadoes destroyed a a huge swath of the town of Hugo east of Minneapolis.  They went off again tonight, but the storms were contained and non-rotational.  (Every Minnesotan is an amateur meteorologist, in case you didn't know.)  Nonetheless, they dumped lots of dime-sized hail, which pelted the monkeys on our welcome mat, and when they continued to produce rain after the setting sun broke through the western clouds, they created a beauteous rainbow in the eastern sky.

MacPeas

It's been a ridiculously long time since our last update. The winter was so long and relentless that any creative spark was doused by the cold and snow. Mostly we curled up and napped, went to work when we had to, and ate a lot. Now the sun is warm enough that we're crawling out of the den, squinting into the light, and thinking it's time to get busy.

So we went out and bought a MacBook. This may not help us get off the couch, but at least Steve may find it a little easier to get online. We plan to tie a rope to our old PC and use it as an anchor when we go fishing in Rhinelander next weekend.