Easter and More Severe Storms

Easter morning we got ready to leave the campground to head to church. We got into the truck and it wouldn't start. Dead battery. So we jumped it and hoped it would get us to the church without quitting. It did and after church it started. Beautiful church service. A little different approach to the Easter service and it was real nice. Afterwards, we went to a nice Chinese restaurant and had a nice dinner. Then we went back to Josh's and Rick and Josh pulled the battery out of the truck and went a bought a new one. Now the truck is ready for the trip home. It started raining and storming a little while we were still at Josh's but it seemed to have died down. Here is Jay on his horse. He really needs to be in the mood for a picture. This one he was. This one he wasn't. Jackson was not home at the time I took these. Then he was in the mood again. He is so funny. I see so much of Josh in Jay that it brings back lots of memories. We were at the restaurant and Josh asked me if he was like Jay is when he was little. I said not as much. Josh was more laid back and very lovable. Jay has more of a temper but can be very lovable when he wants to be. It just needs to be on his terms. We left their place about 7:30 to head back home. I got into my pj's and had started to relax when the wind kicked up and we lost out satellite. So Rick got on the computer and started looking at the weather and saw some really nasty stuff coming in. So I got dressed again and we were soon over at the wash house because the storms were coming in. This is between 9-10. By 11:00 I was on the phone to Josh telling him he was under a tornado warning. Rick had the movie camera out and was filming the lightning. He was facing the camper and all of a sudden a big lightning bolt came down right behind the camper and BOOM, the flash of light and our outside lights went off. We hurriedly went into the bath house. We went back out to see if the camper was on fire. No, thank goodness. But we were sure everything that was plugged in was fried. Rick thought it hit the camper, I thought it hit the electric plug. So in a lull, Rick went over to check on things. Lo and behold, we had power inside. It had popped a 20amp breaker. Thank goodness that was all that was wrong. He came back over and we were going to go back to the camper when it got real bad again. So it was after midnight when we got back into the camper. I went to bed around 2 am and Rick came to bed around 3. But we slept in this morning. We cleaned up around the camper and put some stuff away in preparation of leaving on Thursday. We decided to call Jim and Donna to go out for dinner. We met them down in Wiggins and then went to their house. But before leaving I was on the computer looking at the weather and saw nothing in our area. I even had the weather channel on and again, nothing in our area. By the time we were leaving, it had started to rain. Then our county was under a severe thunderstorm warning. We drove out of it as we were heading south. So we stayed at Jim and Donna's longer than we had planned because Josh called to see where we were because the weather was bad again. We did hit a hard rain but it didn't last very long as we were driving home. Hopefully, we will not see anymore storms for a while. We have had our fill. Our grandson Jackson is sick with the flu. Hopefully he will feel better tomorrow.