It's been more spring like and along with that more weather watches and welcome rain! We have been lucky so far to have had only small pea size hail, and some winds accompany the rain. Over the weekend we attended two graduation open house parties about 50 miles west of our prairie home. On Saturday afternoon skies began to cloud and when the heat and dreadful humidity of the day met up with the cooler air of the front we had all kinds of thunderstorm and tornado watches go up. I was driving between affairs once when my phone went off for an actual tornado warning in the county, scared the bajebers out of me! My phone had never before made that alarm sound! The warning applied to the northern part of the county so for our location it was already north of us and on it's way out of the county! Great cloud watching as my sister, mom and I stood out in the driveway looking up and keeping an eye out for ominous formations. What we got was temperature changes as winds would blow cool one moment and then warm the next, then stop blowing completely! Scary!!
When we got home later in the evening it appeared we had had some winds come through as a chair was blown over down by the shed along with 1.15 in the rain gauge!
Woohoo we needed that precipitation on the strawberries, they're full of blooms, with promise of a bountiful harvest come June! The asparagus has been plentiful and we have been eating and sharing the harvest with others. The rhubarb harvest has been good, I made a pie and some rhubarb sauce, but not the usual overwhelming amount that allows me to put up cartons in the freezer. It went to seed so early that we picked the seed heads off in hopes of prolonging the grow time to get more for jelly and the freezer, we shall see if that works. We've had two pickings of spinach and lettuce for salads, YUM good stuff! So much better than iceberg lettuce salad!
