the remaking of a kitchen

yesterday out of the blue, well, out of the grayishness we suddenly realized that there were storm warnings to the north of us. strangely the storm started moving in a southerly direction, golden valley, st louis park, with us next on the menu. don and i grabbed the plants awaiting planting and shoved them back under the picnic table and pushed the planted pots under the eaves. i grabbed the hanging basket outside the back door and put it on the deck under the eaves. the planters that i had on the deck to protect them from digging chipmunks i put under the deck seating. first there was rain, then a short power outage (luckily i had just turned off my computer) and then came the hail. there was a lot of wind that blew leaves and maple seeds all over the place....our windows look pretty messy! the pictures show the hail....the pile at the end of the drain spout in the front garden and along the house at the deck edge. no damage, but a lot of action for a while. no sirens, but the talking heads were VERY excited!! we did get quite a bit of rain from the storm and that was very good news. the yard was extremely dry. so, we were lucky in a couple of ways.

Labels: hail, welcome rain, wind