Spring Storms

The weatherman forecasts a hot and dry summer. Spring has been warm and wet, excellent growing weather for the crops, garden and huge mosquitoes. Burford, as usual, has been battered by these pesky stingers, Little Austria campground is losing its campers over it.
The worm pickers are busy too at the Brown farm, their lights move look like fireflies through the field at nights. It was clear last night and the stars were out and my luck....a shooting star. The coyotes were busy too practising their howling!
We have had hot humid days with storms building to chase the heat out again. Last month we saw several pass us over, the last one June 19th. spun a tornado north of Stratford, a dairy barn lost its roof and trees down.Just 2 weeks earlier Tavistock had 15cm+ rain out of 2 heavy storms with hail....the town flooded ... fields were duck ponds.Gerbrich's farm was just on the edge of it and did ok..only 3''.

We could see the storm building on the radar on the 19th. plus Duke new already by coffee time something was up! We lost our hydro and had to run the generator. The storm broke and in 15 min all was done. in those 15 min dad had to run twice to the barn to adjust the curtains ... the rain came down so heavy ..then the wind picked up.....1e run.... then the wind changed directions.... 2e run. All through this ......wind ...hail...driving rain.....lightning......and very loud thunder. His routine never changes!
Had to clean the litter from the trees ...the sun was out again... all was clear.



On June 8th. we were surprised by a wall of water out on the back deck by the pool, at the same time Wanda K. was walking with Tracy's little boy, Carter, in the stroller along the road and had to be rescued by Joe and take shelter in his tractor. He happened to be in field right there by the road.
We are in for some more thunder showers tonight and Summer starts today!Have a good one!

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