To rain, or not to rain...

On Saturday, Aug. 4th, we figured it might be one of our last chances to get to the downtown Farmers Market before the season ends based on our schedule for the coming weeks. 

So when I got home from Bible study, we piled into the van and made our way into the seedy underbelly of downtown Des Moines... okay, so it's not really "seedy" and not so much an "underbelly" either but sometimes I'm just along for the ride of wherever my brain takes me. Scary as that might be. 

We made our first stop and ordered some pig and cow parts to be picked up at a later date (butchering and processing will be happening soon! mmmmm... yummy animals...), bought some goat chops from those same folks to be cooked later in the day.

While we were walking to the opposite end of the market, which is roughly 4 blocks away, the breeze picked up and it was noticeably cooler, and the Western sky began to grow dark.

We stepped up the pace a bit on our way to the sausage stand!

We got our sausages, I had the Grobe bratwurst, Robby had the knackwurst, and Caleb had the Polish sausage, each one better than the next!  Man, it was good sausage...  

woooo...  sausage...

Oh yeah!  Weather.

So then we got us some egg rolls, and headed back towards the vehicle with an eye on getting a pie from a certain stand for the Schmitz reunion that is going on as I type this (I'm not there due to a cd release party happening tonight that I play guitar at).

Me and the boys head up the parking ramp to the vehicle with mom securing the aforementioned pie.  

We're driving home, which is East of Des Moines, and notice the sky behind us. It was DARK!

After arriving home, we decided to watch the storm roll in from our deck.

Not too windy yet, but the clouds were moving in two different directions. The upper clouds were going straight East and the lower, lighter clouds were heading Southeast.

That would be the front as it's moving over our houses.

Looking up the back hill.

Looking straight South under the front.

These little wispy white clouds would pop up, morph and go away fairly quickly.

The "snowflakes" in the photo are our camera capturing the rain drops.  The real rain didn't happen for about another ten minutes or so, but it got quite dark.

Robby was trying to spot lighting and Caleb...  well, he was a bit concerned but when the camera got turned to him, he was not concerned enough to where he couldn't ham it up a bit.

The boys watching the storm and letting our dog, Rosey, do her bidness.

All in all, we probably got somewhere between 1/4 or 1/2 inch of rain total.  I'll take whatever we can get at this point but the majority of that rain came down really hard. So hard in fact that the ruts in the driveway that were starting to get smoother are now nice and deep and rough again!  :-)

Oh, well.  Such is life, and any way you slice it, it is grand.