Weather I like it or not!

My sister called me on Wednesday morning and said, "I was just calling to tell you not to die today."

"Huh?"

"There are supposed to be tornadoes there today and I wanted to tell you not to die."

"Oh, okay. I won't"


I had no idea. I don't worry about that kind of thing like I did when I first moved here almost four years ago. The weather here has been beautiful. This week has been in the high 70's. In November. I love it! But Wednesday this is what happened:





No, that is not snow (not a tornado either). That is very loud hail mixed with lots of loud rain. So loud that you could not even hear Lucky crying in the background. It was pretty scary for him.

Yeah, it is starting to actually feel like winter is near. Whether I like it or not, and I don't. I am just not ready for the ice storms. We have some great days in the winter here, but every once in a while we have to deal with those nasty ice storms. Luckily those happen a lot less than the nice days do.

Today and yesterday have been lovely days, but on Wednesday this is what our yard looked like.
Lucky's poor little pumpkin was drowning.

The hail had embedded in the dirt.

There was lots of standing water.

Our trampoline collected a lot of the hail.

The only hail damage was our music and lights Sit 'n' Spin. We have not really used it for a while so the boys didn't mind. They were actually really fascinated by it.

I was surprised that something was broken this time when the hail was big...

but not nearly as big as it was in our storm this spring when nothing (nothing at our house anyway) was broken.

We lost power that night for about an hour. My cell phone was dead and our flashlight is not working very well. I guess it was a good reminder that I need to be prepared for the coming winter.