One Doozy Of A Storm

 Yesterday's weather started off lovely. It was warm and humid. At 1 p.m., the skies darkened, thunder rolled in and lightened flashed. The skies opened up and it poured rain and hailed. In no time flat we had 2" of rain fall. By the time it let up, it had rained 2.25". The day ended with sunshine. The high got to 27C with a humidex of 32C. This morning it is raining lightly and 17C. We are to have rain until noon. 

Lifestyle

I did the last of the budget yesterday and will have a few entries to do on the weekend. Bills were paid and all is well for a couple of weeks. We looked at the hoard and will only be buying the basics for the next while. We need to use up what we have. 

The storm we had was quite the show. It was an isolated storm over us it seems. 

The hail was hitting the front and garage doors and the windows. Talk about loud. 

The strange thing, the temperature dropped to 21C and the ice melted quite quickly. The flowers on the deck fared well. 

The garden seems to be okay though there was some damage to the tomato plants. We will call it pruning. 

The ditch that runs along our side of the street was half full of water and running quite well. The town had it's issues with flooding. One of the stores had to close as water was coming in. The exhibition grounds were full of water. 

I snapped the picture from the CBC page on the flooding.

Last evening when we went out on the deck and saw the neighbor's cat on the shed ramp. He looks a lot like Elliott except his face has a white spot on his nose and no white up to his eyes. 

He lets us talk to him and allows us to get close but will walk away when we get too close. He left his perch and waited until we were back on the deck and then crossed the yard under the deck and went to his home next door for food. 

There were 2 new cases of the virus reported yesterday. Both are related to travel. We have some concerns about the variants and will probably be wearing masks when in most stores. If not busy, I may not but I will when it is busy. I worry about getting the virus and spreading it to children who can not have the vaccine. 

Sewing

The thunder and lightening show did not stop until around 4 p.m. so I did not sew yesterday. I did do a bit of thinking of the next projects I want to do next month. 

Knitting

I did a bit of knitting on the hat yesterday. There will be a color change soon. It will be the deciding factor if I finish the hat or make it into something else. 

Today

I have to fold laundry and do one more load. I hope to quilt on the doll's quilt. We are not sure if we will be out tonight for grandson's soccer game. It's an hours drive from here so it will be a later night for us. 

Until the next time.............................................................