Rural Gardening: It's April already!!!, 1 by Hineni

Hineni wrote:
Well, I hope everyone fared well through last night's brouhaha. We had a tornado here, thankfully no home damage, but I lost several trees. Two which were rotted from the inside, and then one beautiful 40 year old chestnut simply uprooted, just like in Georgia. Are tornadoes following me? LOL! We had a 911 call siting the funnel, got a warning about three minutes before it hit. Thankfully I had spent all day preparing and me and the critters were in the basement - but still spent a lot of time praying during those long six minutes. Power was restored about 6 a.m. - I have a LOT of work to do, including getting a huge maple limb off the power lines. Thankfully not a re-do of last year's power line fiasco when it pulled the meter right off the house. Otherwise, Allstate would probably cancel me instead of simply doubling my rates like this year!

A few photos to come.