Thanks, Pete!
We are A-OK. Just a lot of rain and wind, here. The Tornado Touchdown was NORTH of us and really, there wasn’t any damage to homes because it was in the middle of NOWHERE, though I’m sure some corn or soybeans fields took on some damage.
Luckily, it MISSED the Farm & Fleet, which was really my main concern - people and livestock REALLY depend upon them!
It was a harrowing few hours - Beau was out mowing for a neighbor and I couldn’t reach him by phone (cell coverage in, ‘The Driftless’ is awful - too many hills!) but he eventually got in touch with me and I went to pick him up where he was stranded in the rain.
Storms on and off all week/end. Supposedly a big gully-washer this Saturday.
My Cucumbers are MORE than happy. The tomatoes? They’re gonna suck this season. Already thinking of stocking up on canned tomatoes...
And I’m the, ‘Tomato Queen’ in these parts! Not this year. Grrrr!
Its raining here, which is good. I hate spending money on water. (My father paid about $15 a year for city water which came from Lake Michigan. Here that would be a week or two depending on the weather.)
A lightening strike and power surge and my Battery/surge protector shut the computer down, although not the lights in the house. Restarted with no problems. Happy cukes! I suppose I should start some. Tomatoes are coming in. Picking at color break and ripening inside. I removed some larger suckers from my tomatoes about 5 days ago and stuck them in glass jars in water. They kicked out roots and I planted them just before the rain. (Used some of the 70-75 day varieties so hoping for some Indian Summer tomatoes.) The volunteer pumpkins are growing aggressively and will be happy. Same for the Sweet potatoes.
I picked the 2 pound Old German (or maybe Pineapple) slicing tomato and it ripened perfectly. I decided to celebrate by going and buying an excellent rosemary sourdough loaf (3 days fermenting before bake) and we had that, the tomato, and basil for lunch and dinner. Primo!
Alas tomato queen! Perhaps you will be able to salvage something after everything dries off!