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At Home With Jesus!
Friday, June 13, 2008
Baseball, tornadoes, floods, and our garden.
How's that for a random title - LOL!
We took the kids to their first baseball game of the season.
We have a local minor-league team, and the kids were really excited to be able to go to a game.
We even had great seats - two rows up , and right along 1st base.
  Unfortunately, as this is Wisconsin (and the weather is so horribly unpredictable,) we only got to see 3 innings before the torrential downpour began and the lightening/hail caused everyone to run for cover.
 We tried to 'wait it out' under the (metal-roofed  ) shelter of the picnic area, but after an hour the storm only seemed to be picking-up so they 'called' the game. Amidst all of the lightning, we made a mad dash for the car and went home. Hopefully we'll get a rain-check and be able to go to another game later this season.
This has been just a horrible weather week. We have had one storm after another, and last night the tornado sirens went off (again) and so we all spent the evening in the basement.
Luckily we have a TV and radio down there, so we could keep up with the weather reports. There was a funnel cloud only 2 miles from our house! (It didn't touch down - but it was still pretty scary!)
(In the basement)
 Poor Joseph is so frightened of storms/thunder, and this was very hard on him.
He decided to make the best of it though, and he put on his
Bathrobe Coat of Many Colors while we waited out the storm.
As for the flooding, we are just fine here, but the town where I grew up (Portage, WI) is just downstream from Wisconsin Dells/Lake Delton. I'm sure many of you have heard about the tragedy there, (the dam broke, and the whole lake drained within hours - taking houses, boats, etc. and flooded the surrounding area.) Now the Wisconsin River is rising (and the extra water from Lake Delton has pushed it to the limits.) I have several relatives that still live in Portage, and they said they are praying that the levee holds. (Thankfully, none of my relatives live close to the river, but it would still be a tragedy for the town to be flooded.)
And lastly - something happy - an update on our garden.
We have all sorts of fun things happening! Unfortunately, we have a lot of debris in there, too because of the storms, but most of the little sprouts have remained unharmed (we did have a little squash sprout get uprooted, but we think we were able to save it in time.)
We have:
Tomatoes & peppers, beans and sunflowers
 Lettuce and carrots-
 Corn
 and summer squash
We need to do some 'thinning' - but overall I think we're in good shape! :-)
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