I was working in the yard (3+ acres) when lightning started getting bad. I retreated to my back porch and popped a beer. My neighbor to the North came by to bring me a shrimp casserole she prepared....more beers. Then it started really cracking with lots of sharp cloud to ground strikes nearby. I remarked jokingly, that I was glad I didn't stay out or I might get struck from collateral damage when my neighbor to the South got hit (she has at times been intolerant of my shooting and never was friendly to my neighbor to the North). Boom! Lightning struck her pump and a huge pink ball of fire erupted. I called the neighbor, but she was not home. So my dear neighbor Sissy and her boyfriend ran next door, in the middle of the storm to put out the fire. I assisted, as I still had my Big Chopper strapped on from yard work. I Cut a trail thru the palmettos and and Sissy put out the fire with buckets of water as the power was out.

Kosher fresh eggs from the neighbor's hens were our reward. Just do good and the karma wheel will work. I bet Sissy gets invited to the next oyster roast. No, my Jewish neighbor to the South does not keep a kosher diet, but now she knows that her semi-heathen Christian neighbors care about her. Love and doing the right thing is its own reward. But I'm looking forward to those fresh eggs. My wife, Susan just loved it all. We are blessed. Just be a good neighbor and you will eventually have good neighbors.

soon you can carry a MOAD and leave your busse combat mistresses behind wink