I thought my eyes were dim

like the Raffi song....
Anyways, I thought I was going crazy last night. A and I were sitting out on the back porch in our lawnchairs (we inherited white metal chairs and a table with the house but we never use them. We sit in our Canadian flag lawnchair which is normal height and my little lawn chair that I bought at the Edmonton Folk Festival last year). I'm kinda sitting sideways and I see a flashing of light out of the corner of my right eye. At first I thought it was just a light reflecting off it from somewhere but it kept happening. Then I changed positions and looked straight forward. What the hell? Was something wrong with my eyes? What were those flashes of light in the lawn? I thought I was going crazy. Nope, I was not (well at least not this time)....what, you may ask, was I looking at? Lightening bugs. That's right, folks, up until last night I was a lightening bug virgin. Never seen them before....ever. I think I probably read about them in some Judy Blume novel when I was younger but never really knew what they were. I'm sure A and I looked like idiots walking around our and the neighbours' lawns at 10:30pm in random patterns for no apparent reason changing direction every three metres with our heads bobbing back and forth trying to find the little suckers. It seems that everyone but I have a story about chasing and catching lightening bugs in jars as children and the subsequent manslaughter of those self-same critters. For those of you not in the know (i.e. most of my Canadian readership), lightening bugs rear ends light up really quickly for a second then stop 'til they move somewhere else and flash the hood. Apparently, this is to attract a mate. I'm trying to imagine going through life with a flashlight behind. Weird!!!!