Crazy Weather.........

lately. The Midwest has been battered with lots of rain and tornadoes and it seems that last night it was our turn. After my oldest's friends left yesterday afternoon, something told me to get all of my photos (about 500 of them) saved to disks. Since they are high resolution, it too about 4 hours to do that. About 7:30 I looked at weather.com and it had a tornado warning for our area...WHAT????? I read the info and a funnel cloud was sighted in a town about 1/2 hour away and the storms were racing at 55-60 mph. So I had everyone get their shoes and socks on and get stuff to take to the basement. About 20 minutes later it got really freaky looking...
Then we looked to the SW towards town and a bunch of dirt started to swirl upwards. We couldn't see a funnel, but there was definitely some rotation going on there...
And about 20 minutes after that the storms had blown through. There are quite a few trees down in the area and north and east of us there were a few tornadoes spotted. The kiddos playset in the back yard, which has been there for 6 years through many nasty storms, was knocked over and some how missed hitting the deck.

Below are some random pics I took a few days ago of a storm that went north of us. The lightning was fantastic!

Barn Raising Take 2

The insurance adjuster was out the Monday after the framing blew down and about a week and a half after that the new lumber arrived. They got going on the barn again and when the weather man called for some windy weather again, DH brought over his dad's CAT tractor and they tied the west end it as seen in the first two pics below.


This is the week before Memorial Day and they are almost finished.



And here is what it looks like this morning, now that it is finished. Last night we received some strong storms and 3/4 of an inch of rain. Now onto the next project, a clothesline.

It's June 1st!

This year is flying by. Lots going on around here and the computer is off more than it is on. As long as I have the computer turned off, I'm not tempted to sit and check out websites online. A lot has gone on since the last post so I will be posting in installments since blogger only allows you to upload 5 photos to each post.

Late April we had a builder come and build us a new machine shed. The first two photos show the start of the project. They had 3/4's of the framing done when we had a wind storm the afternoon May 1st.







The last photo shows what 50+ mph winds did to the framing. The builder is licensed and insured and it was a total loss. It was a couple weeks when the new building materials arrived and construction began again. Photos of the finished barn will be tomorrow.