Well here I sit listening to roll after roll of thunder.  Not a good start to our biggest holiday,the event that really kicks off summer here in Canada.  It is Canada Day on tuesday and some have a long weekend and other unfortunate souls have it split. My flag was installed by me the other day before heading to sit the day waiting for a doctors appointment as was my new spiffy outdoors thermometer!!!  It's in both C and F !!!!  Big move for me as I really have trouble converting the tempurature,although right now it's very humid. Haaa,haaa forecast is...here looking out the window,severe storms,heavy lightning ,torrential downpours!   The past weeks have been odd.  Weather we usually don't get. Tornados have been regularly spotted and we have had storms so intense that you hold your breath at times wondering what will let go.  Last week I awoke to a dark morning.  This morning is grey and foggy with all the rain but this morning was black,black when there should have been light.  The birds were quiet which is what I think woke me. The winds picked up and abaited off and on and the rhythm was strange, picking up as the hours went along.  The sky when it tried to gain colour was very off,had an odd pinkish hue to the underside of the dark clouds.  I went out to stand to watch and the speed of the clouds on high was so much faster with the darkest clouds hovering at a slower speed.  The breaking of the storm came with a crack of thunder that made you jump. Then it was on! On full with the winds howling and they gained speed until they were picking up the curtains at the sliders and blowing them straight into the room. The rain lashed and it fell quiet all of a sudden.  I went to push open the slider and thought better of it!  Then it started,the harsh pinging and it got heavier and the hail started pea size and as it continued they got larger. It was crazy to see it all bouncing and piling,hitting things and landing at odd angles,building little ridges here and there,beat everything down.  It lasted longer than I have ever seen any hail storm,they are usually short lived,just long enough to add a little excitment,but this was about half an hour.  The scene was strange,all this large round stuff layered up against the house and covering the plants. The sun came out and the heat created an odder veiw. As the sun's heat  hit the masses of pearls it caused the frozen hail to steam as it melted.  Slowly the perfectly round invaders were melted back and the sun shone on a normal day.  After such a wild, dark and violent morning the noon peace of the rabbits hopping about the yard wasn't bad at all.