And the rains came down in a straight line wind event.

It was a hellova storm here at the lake. I have never seen such hard winds coming from the south, up over the dam road and onward. The water mist was actually picked up and moved to the other end of the lake. My zinnias were knocked down, the petals ripped off of the poppies and the sunflowers bent far to touch the ground! Scary stuff.

The worst of it all is that there was a death of a young man at our neighbor lake when a tree fell on him! Here are some images I took the next day. We were out of power for over 24 hours. As I rode around there were a lot of branches, leaves and other debris in the road. I was accompanied by the sound of generators at almost every home.

Up the road this large branch came down on a neighbor's garage roof.

The rabbits came out of hiding.

Further on my ride I saw another tree down but it didn't cause damage, just a major cleanup for the neighbor. His sunflowers were spared as his home is not on the lake.

There were several scenes like this one at neighboring properties.

As I continued my normal route it was good to see flowers that weren't damaged and a Honeyboat winter squash growing untouched.

On my way back home I drove by the tree stump that harbors a seedling and people have been putting piles of stones on it. The little tree is holey due to bugs but is hanging in!

As I returned, I saw the egret who was playing peek-a-boo. I watched him and sure enough he went fishing and left with a large one as he flew away.

Earlier in the morning three deer came down for a drink but I wasn't prepared well enough and my photos were too blurry to post. This doe and fawn come often. They have shown another where good water can be found and she came along as well. 

This sudden and strong wind sure did lots of damage. I have never seen such an event when the water lifted and moved along the top of the lake pushed by its power.

 

St.Patrick’s Day

Leprechauns at Work

Power was out for three hours this morning! Sometimes just the power goes out and sometimes only the cable goes out but this time it was a complete outage for us here. We turned on the scanner and heard nothing about why. I called the power company and they recorded it. We learned later that is was a very large area affected.   

Two days ago we got our first Covid vaccination. Yes, our arms were a bit sore, but today we are fine. Next appointment April 12. Thank goodness it was done right here at our local hospital, only 4 miles away.

Recently we got word that a family member was in a Scranton hospital after emergency surgery for a repair to his stomach. At age 85, we sure hope he will get through this and that his recovery will be full. 

Brother stopped in with a dozen of the very large and beautiful brown eggs. Had one for lunch and it was a double yolker! Good Luck!

 

"May you always walk in sunshine,

May you never want for more,

May Irish angels rest their wings right beside your door." 

I have committed to the purchase of a "From Me - To Me" birthday present. Will show you soon. I'm excited about it! 

Waiting...Waiting

I sure would like to see some sunshine and feel some warmer weather. You can call me impatient but it's difficult to be "up" when things are "down."

First of all, there will be no dandelion wine again this year. The storm of three nights ago has caused extensive power outages in our surrounding area. My brother is running two generators just to keep freezers and refrigerators going. We gave him a large foam box to protect his peeps. He'll line it with shavings and hope. It is difficult for him to have warm water - his stove is electric. A solution will be to start up the big wood stove which he most likely will do.  He needs to cut the grass at the airport but it's too wet! The pictures were taken last summer by my nephew and his drone.

Happy news! Our daughter just brought over a large hanging fuchsia plant. It will be in the carport as more cold and windy days are expected. She said the hummingbirds love fuchsia flowers and she should know - she's a master gardener. I can't wait to hang it on the front porch beam. She also brought some home made chicken vegetable soup.

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James is adorned with his new May/June garland but I'll wait for the sun to arrive to show you how beautiful he is. I do detect a smile on his face. He likes the change.