It's All Shot to Hail

lupine

potato patch

pepper stem

cucumber nub

sad tomato

Yesterday we decided to drive to Bismarck to get concrete for the bathroom counter top (yes I know driving 100 miles each way for Menards on a Monday is a little much). We stopped everywhere we could before things closed at 10 (when it was still light outside). I really don't enjoy living right on the time zone boundary at all. We gain an hour when we go 30 miles East. I got the phone call about Maggie on the way home. As if that wasn't bad enough, Mother Nature decided to kick me in the gut and them punch me in the face too. Besides getting home exhausted with puffy red eyes we arrived to soaked ground and debris. It was nice when we left Dickinson, and all the way to Bismarck, and the whole time we were there, and the whole drive back exept for a storm in the distance which didn't ever rain on our drive. Well apparently it did rain in Dickinson. It hailed actually and not all over the whole town. This storm decided to single out certain houses so that two houses away there is no dammage and my flowers, garden. tree branches and everything else at the little green house was shredded to stems. Have you ever heard of straight line winds? A new term I have recently learned. Wind can blow all over your place and leave your neighbor's alone. In our case the neighbor's garden was in our backyeard too. Bet they're glad that we let them share our space. There goes four months of growing from seed, babying my perennials, controlling weeds, and getting eaten by bugs. Bundles of tears for 100 miles home and an awful feeling of complete defeat and hate for mother nature is not a good way to fall asleep and also horrendous to wake up with. My coworkers probably thought i was hungovr. So that I don't have to keep pitying myself I will share the devastation with all of you. The plan is to clear rows little by little, trim broken plants, and hope they grow back. So much for early tomatoes and any cucumbers at all.