Why do I Blog?

Life is so fast & furious with 3 young children, working from home, ect that I fear I will forget the lovely details of my girls' precious childhood.

My main motivation for blogging is to capture the every day moments...so I don't forget them before I have a chance to scrapbook. Sharing with you is just an added bonus. Keeping this blog has helped me get the photos off my camera's memory card and label/organize them on my laptop. It is the BEST tool I have for scrapbooking. I haven't ever been able to keep a journal, but this I can do. I don't pretend to have anything interesting to say. In fact I'm sure this little blog is boring to you, but to me it is priceless!

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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

1 the morning AFTER the storm


Well I think I lost my tomato and pepper plants here at home. The strawberry plants are in shreds. I really hope that my annual bedding plants come back. Our poor trees were just getting leafed out. All these pictures were taken this morning. We still had an inch of hail on the grass at 9am!



UPDATE: My father-in-law just let us know that it looks like the hail missed Amalga and so the pumpkin farm and my garden out there are very, very wet, but not in shreds like here in town. Thanks goodness! It sounds like we got about 1.5 inches of rain in about 45 minutes. Reports are that two storms actually collided right above us. WOW! Several of our ward members didn't fair as dry as us and have flooded basements. What a wild night!

My mother-in-law has lived in the same house for 40 years (a few blocks away from here) and has NEVER had water in her window-wells...until last night. One of her neighbors went to wake her son downstairs just as the water from the overflowing canal ran from their backyard into their windows. Before they could make it up the stairs the glass burst and the water and mud quickly rose to the ceiling. I can't even begin to imagine the lost of personal belongings, let alone all the photos and scrapbooks that were completely destroyed. I am so greatful nobody was hurt and that we are all dry here.


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1 comment:

Beattie Family said...

your poor strawbies!!! I'm so glad your other farm was ok. Those were some awe-inspiring pictures on your neighbor's blog, that's so sad about the basement in Joann's neighborhood. Just imagine what the end of the world is going to be like, well I guess now you can!