It’s that time of the summer again. We had just been discussing how mid June is prime time for hail. Then here it came, all kinds of warnings for South Dakota but nothing for us. We watched it coming on the radar but as the clouds came over we could see day light under them. So dismissing the threat I proceeded to wash dishes.
Then something thunked hard on the roof. I thought at first that one of the floor pots had blown over but upon examination I found huge hail stones falling almost gracefully from the sky. The sun shown the whole time and we were lucky not to have much wind with it. What a great Fathers Day, I’m not sure if it was a good present because it didn’t do near the damage it could have or a bad one because we got hail. Either way happy first fathers day dear.
If the fields are any thing like the garden they should be fine, same for the pastures. Like the horses the cattle probably just stood there and enjoyed the back rub. This was as good as something as bad as a hail storm can get. For us at least, I hope every one else was as lucky.
- The caption for all of these
- is going to be the same.
- See the white Dots?
- Those are hail.
- The horses are standing out there in the hail
- I put them where they had shelter
- They apparently didn’t like it.
- We got a little bit of rain
- but the sun shown the whole time
- It didn’t hurt my flowers to badly
- A few holes in the pumpkins
- And some shredded corn leaves
- It would take more than hail to kill cabbage
- This watermellons milk jug greenhouse got a hole poked in it. And one in the ground just under the hole
- It’s amazing the holes those hail stones can make
- I, of course immediately grabed a hanfull of hail stones
- And threw them in the freezer, Thats perfectly normal right?
- These two are my favorites