Shortly after moving up here to the high desert, I was helping my friend Jim in cleaning up one of the Rentals his folks own for gas money. Jim took off to get some more trash bags, leaving me to finish up raking the leaves and chopping up the branches that had fallen. As I worked away, a brief but violent thunderstorm rolled in. Being unacustomed to lightning storms in the desert, I thought I was pretty safe working out in the open...