Home Sweet Home

Yesterday, May 31 was just over the top beautiful in Minn. The weather, perfect, our home, inviting and our garden was attracting praise from passer-bys. My wife taking it in realizing the benefits of her hard work in the garden over the years. We were having our great friends and neighbors over for a cook out.... life was just perfect. The news was of storms coming through that afternoon was acceptable. Maybe some thunder and lightening which, in many ways, could top off a great day in the upper mid west.




The storm painted the sky like a bruise, the sirens blared, our friends were gathering around the windows and doors looking out, and I stirred "morel mushrooms from our yard" risotto, slaved to the stove. The wind picked up as the leading edge of the storm swept overhead. The rain fell, and our neighbor Marek says "It is hailing". "How big is it?" "Not big but it is hailing.....wait, it is getting bigger....oh yeah, the hail is getting big now." The house sounded as if it were under attack. White missiles the size of grapes were streaming out of the northeast pushed by the winds..........I continued to stir the risotto. The hail fell as strong as a rain, pouring off the rooftops, banging against the windows and collecting on the ground. Five minutes of sky versus ground warfare. When it was over....devastation. Look at the photos and you'll see.......view the gallery under albums "Home Sweet Home" to see this amazing hail.