Early morning flight

Thunder, wind and rain passed across the lake in the early hours of the morning. Snuggled in our bed under the covers and the dogs nestled close by I slept with no concern that our “flying deck umbrella” would chose to take wing again.

What is he talking about?

For some reason our back decks umbrella is prone to take flight when the winds are just right.  Swirling around the house during a storms, it will spin the umbrella and like a helicopter, lift off and fly over the roof before landing in the front yard.

Not early this morning as I paid attention to the weather forecast last night for “chances” of rain overnight and stowed and lashed the umbrella down for the night.

Like an early video of Igor Sikorsky’s  attempts at helicopter flight, the umbrella will begin to lift up and down, spin slowly, trying to decide at which point it will take off…and like the early helicopter flights not really sure where it would go!

But not today.