Oh, HALE no!

There is a gully buster going on in the Gulag Garden today. I was fooling around - not doing chores - enjoying an ash log on the fire. And the hale came tumbling down. The rattle and clap of thunder, I charged outside to see if my three French hens were okay or drowning or something. They were fine, on the back doorstep. I rewarded their annoying 'poop on the doorstep' behavior with fresh meal worms. I'll never learn.



Yes; I know that kind of flooding is destroying the house foundations; another heart attack, for another day.

It wasn't only raining, it was haling - looked like someone was sprinkling pea sized,fancy gourmet salt crystals around the yard. Wow. Not terrifically scarse here in the fall/winter, but I don't recall we got any hale last year at all.

The raised bed looks all Christmasy with a throw of hale on it
Click on this pic to see 2 ensie dark blue Sunberriein the potted sunberry seedlings
I particularly like the following shots taken a few minutes ago during the hale. You can see the Swiss Chard is alive and well, and the little pot next to it are the Sunberry seedlings I planted during the summer. If you look very closely, you can actually see a dark blue Sunberry still on one seedling. I love these momentary looks into a wintery landscape in the Gulag Garden - doesn't ever last for more than an hour to two, tops. Looks so very prairie-ish.