[Augie]

It's been a crazy weather week here in Central Missouri. We got 2.6" of rain a few days ago, then yesterday evening we got clobbered. 4.8" of rain, most of it in a pair of 15 minute downpours, and a lot of wind. We needed rain but sure didn't need the wind. I do appreciate the foot of new water that it put in my pond. Another two feet and it will be full again.

Sweet corn is flattened. Will make it a giant pita to pick but it won't ruin the crop.

I was preoccupied when the first squall line hit and didn't shut the door to the hoop house so I get to install a new layer of visqueen.

Everything else in the garden is pretty well wind-whipped but should recover soon enough. I've got a few tree limbs down and plenty of wind-blown mess to pick up.

I was hoping to get the boat out on the river this weekend and try to catch a catfish or three but it looks like I'll be cleaning up this mess instead. The first BLTs of the summer will take away some of the sting.

[FamiliarFace]

BLTs are a great comfort food. If you want an excellent twist, add fried green tomato slices. Still keep the regular ones on. So wonderful.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“The first BLTs of the summer will take away some of the sting.”

Hopefully! What a mess for you to clean up. Ugh! We’ve yet to have a bad Summer Storm - had our first Thunderstorm last night - and I hardly knew how to react, LOL!

We’ve gotten about 2” since Wednesday, so my veggies and fruit trees are well on their way to catching up.

I’ve got my own mess in the greenhouse to deal with - the two puppies I’m raising have now made that their ‘Summer Quarters’ and have dismantled my last clean bale of straw and made a nest for each. The very least they could do would be to provide me with some fresh eggs, LOL!

[Paul R.]

Well, we really got slammed. Over 8” of rain yesterday following a pretty heavy MCS the day before that dropped 5” dia. hail somewhere the name of I didn’t catch. But at least no hail here. Then we got another heavy MCS followed by lighter rain until ~ noon, today.

We were in drought before this, and a lot of the rainwater ran off because it came down so fast, but, some plants responded like crazy. One of our Opo grew over 3 ft. yesterday! Today it added another 18” or so...

I don’t know if these rains had particularly high nitrate levels? These storms did seem to clear out a lot of haze / smoke from the Canadian wildfires, so perhaps some other “nutrient” was involved.