Farm Sunrise

Contrary to popular belief, I am not an early riser. Not by our family standards anyway. I know that legend has it that farm wives are up before dawn getting their day started. Not this chick.....

I have a problem getting to sleep at night. I tend to get busy reading or watching reruns of "Deadliest Catch" and suddenly look up at the clock and it is 2:00am..... Something about a hard working guy just does things for me.

My hubby is up anytime between 4:00am and 6:00am --- depending entirely how hard he has worked the day before. My daughter is up at 6:00 am and is disgustingly cheerful. Me, I am up sometime shortly thereafter...... sometime between 7-8:00 am. The younger two boys we have to threaten and shriek at to get them up by 8:30 am and they are comatose until about 10:00am.

Here lately, something is wrong and I have been wandering out at about 6:30am. Thursday morning, I was rudely awakened before 5:00am by a LOUD crack of lightening and my hubby leaping up and racing for the computer. We have lived in this house for a little over ten years and I have lost count of the number of times that it has been struck by lightening or has had very near misses. We have lost several sets of telephones and answering machines and also had to replace the modem in the computer several times. Electric and solar fence charges are pretty much doomed. I have a graveyard of appliances whose lives have been cut short by the power surges. One particularly stormy night, I watched flames shoot out of the phone jack and the telephone cord and carpet melted.

This time, it wsn't nearly that dramatic--or so I thought. As it turns out, something happened and we were with out internet for about 24 hours. The service guy worked for over 6 hours trying to get it all done.

All this to say-- I HAD to get up early that morning and head to Tulsa. As I was leaving the farm, the sun was rising. After the thunderstorm, the air had this really interesting/ different color. I got these really cool pictures of the sun rising and a double rainbow over the farm. It was too big to get into one frame with this tiny digital camera so I took two shots.

This next picture is my favorite of the bunch. It looks like the end of the rainbow with it's pot of gold is at our farm----- and for us--- it is!