In Like a Lion....

You have got to love the typical Midwest March we've had already. First, it snows some more heavy snow, then it gets up into the 50's melting all of the snow finally heading back into the 30's all in a couple of days. I've actually seen more thunderstorms in the last few days than I had since I moved here. There were 3 good ones within 24 hours this weekend.

The one Saturday night that I drove through was particularly good. It had hail, high winds and lightning that lit the world like a flash bulb. That storm was one of the worst I have driven through and I think I took the longest path through it. Happily, Bucky did not sustain any hail damage.

Since then it's just been really windy, averaging around 20mph and gusting up to 50mph. It was snowing when I came home tonight and was 48 degrees and sunny this morning. The weather has actually made the farmland really ugly with lots of standing water in rough, muddy fields bounded by trees without leaves for miles and miles. The snow at least made it remotely pretty. I love the midwest.

Outside of the weather, the only adventure of note was our Council Annual Dinner on Saturday, the longest such event I have been to. I left for it at 2pm and got home at 10:30pm. Taking out the 3 hour round trip drive time, I was there for 5 and 1/2 hours--all pretty unexciting. The actual program was over 2 hours plus dinner and the reception time and the post-program. At one point during the program I caught myself dozing off. The only entertaining moment was the really cheesy closing video with some Lee Greenwood-like song about "why we're Scouters". It made the Cub Scout Rocks video look good. With that event in mind, our district dinner is next week so I'll have my chance to make sure our event is efficient.

Enjoy the weather.