The uprising began with something so innocent, something so insideous: Dog taught Cat how to open Amazon boxes and how to render styrofoam into a blizzard of white particles.

The world, or at least my house, may never be the same.

So I was just getting used to 80 degree F temps in March, when the skies opened up and unleashed a torrent of hail, flash floods, and lightening strikes that have the power in my house going up and down like bad strobe lighting. Hurray for country living.

Yes, that’s hail coming down in the pic.

Looks like we had an earthquake in Virginia today around 2PM, and it was felt all the way up the coast to Maine and into Canada.

The USGS is reporting it as a 5.8 or 5.9 magnitude quake.

Thanks to Xeni Jardin, here’s a Google map showing how close the epicenter of the quake was to the North Anna …