Monday, February 20
I loved how the evening sun highlighted this squirrel’s tail as he munched on seeds from a birdfeeder.
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Friday, February 24
We enjoyed watching these Amish school children playing a variety of games in their school yard.
We were on a country road we seldom travel – after taking a TFC mailing to the post office and getting groceries at Stauffer’s of Kissel Hill for our weekend meals.
Cerwin noticed the tree-cutting equipment in the background as we went around the school yard. This is the man we call to take our trees down when necessary.
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Saturday, March 25
We kept our eyes on the skies and weather radar as this storm approached because hail and tornados were predicted.
By the time two nasty weather fronts went through, our only issue was small hail – with no property damage.
Jeff and Chris live about six miles southwest from us and had some wind and hail damage.
Most of the serious damage happened in an area east of us where tornado-like winds took down trees, ripped off roofs, and flattened buildings.
I find it interesting that many times after a stormy afternoon we have a beautiful sunset.
We continue to pray for those who are repairing roofs and rebuilding barns and houses.
These spring storms are so destructive — we had many trees downed last weekend in our big storm — today is much quieter, but gray and drippy again! I’m glad you were safe and didn’t suffer much damage!
I find it interesting that you are having a rainy, stormy February and March after years of draught.
Our normal rainy season is January through March — usually only one or two rainy days outside that timeframe! The really unusual storm this year was the one we had last week, in which we hd almost a year’s worth of rain in about 3 days. These drippy, gray days are more normal for us, and they usually add up, 1/4 inch at a time, to 12-15 inches of rain a year.For the last 5-6 years, we’ve had about half than amount of rain. It looks as if we may be about at the end of our rainy season for this year — next week/weekend looks sunny and warm again!
You will probably be glad for warm and sunny again. 🙂
I’m so ready for this gray weather to disappear, and for the sun to come out to stay for a while! Even two or three days helps, as they gray can get pretty depressing!