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Well the day started off SUCKING! At 2am I woke up to what I thought was a crash. I thought that my S.F. might have fallen so I jump up to head into the next room. Got to about the middle of the foot of our bed & realized that it was thunder (& a lot more followed). So I turned to go back to bed & caught the board to our ramp (for the dogs) between my big toe & the next toe. Fell HARD on my knee & elbow & tore skin off of both & of course the toes weren't happy & bleeding. Went back to bed (wife didn't even wake up). Got up & realized that once AGAIN I hurt my right knee & right shoulder (that's my good shoulder). So I'm sore as all get out today. Then we had WIND kick up. They say there are gusts over 60mph & I believe it. I saved my plant sun shade (so far) with every clamp that I have. It's blowing so hard that the sun shade is actually loosening the stakes that it's attached to. In 30 minutes I need to go to the base & pick up my medications & I just saw that there is a dust storm on the way. Yippee skip what a day this is turning out to be.
 
Got DH's car this morning. It has a hemi. He likes it!
 

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The wind is crazy @old tex! Power is out here, trees and branches down! The dust is thick, blocks the sun like it's cloudy!! Just got home a bit ago, need to go check on the donkey, he's hiding in his barn from the wind!!
I just came back from checking my sun screen. It's still there. I "thought" that the wind was over for about 30 seconds. Then it kicked up again. The funny part is that I have a lot of older trees in my yard. Yesterday I walked around & picked up sticks & branches from those trees so that our puppy wouldn't bring them in (& eat them). What a waste of time because I now have 20 times more sticks than I picked up.

Oh & my bird feeding for the winter has ended. The last of the food that I had out has "Gone With The Wind" & is probably in Arkansas now. In the end, from start to finish, I think that we put out somewhere around 1,250 lbs of bird seed.
 
I just came back from checking my sun screen. It's still there. I "thought" that the wind was over for about 30 seconds. Then it kicked up again. The funny part is that I have a lot of older trees in my yard. Yesterday I walked around & picked up sticks & branches from those trees so that our puppy wouldn't bring them in (& eat them). What a waste of time because I now have 20 times more sticks than I picked up.

Oh & my bird feeding for the winter has ended. The last of the food that I had out has "Gone With The Wind" & is probably in Arkansas now. In the end, from start to finish, I think that we put out somewhere around 1,250 lbs of bird seed.
Hope your toes are ok, and your shoulder and knee!! I am really surprised we haven't lost more trees!
 
More seedling starting arrived so I fussed about in the greenhouse. More seeds in. Checked on the clones. Should be eating lettuce from the greenhouse in a few weeks.

Ben
 
Windstorms here, too, 40 mph. I was dumb and went into town and put gas in the truck, and didn't blow away. Picked up some stuff from the amish store and got the mail. The sky is pretty darn brown. Just sent little granddaughter out to get the eggs and close everyone up, and move some feed for tomorrow. It's supposed to be in the 20's tonight, so also having her bring in the flat of tomato plants. Greenhouse isn't heated.
 

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