I knew that we probably got a lot of rain last night because when we met Daryl’s brother and sister in law for breakfast, they said that when they left Saturday night they could see quite a few flashers on the roads by our farm already! And it turned out this morning that the County had put up 3 road cautions by us last night after the storm and honestly they should have put up one more going west because that road was also flooded. I think maybe they just ran out or something. Who knows – but what I do know is that we really need some nice warm weather.. oh yea.. and also it needs to be dry! What crops are not flooded or washed out, is now turning yellow because it’s been quite awhile since they saw the sun. We’re all hoping for better weather. Rain amount this morning was around 3 inches.
We didn’t know if we were going to get a bicycle ride in yet today and after dinner the decision was made for us. It started to rain again. OK, time to just relax and get some things done around the house. There wasn’t any good movies around the area to go to, so we just hung out watching TV. And it’s a good thing that William was live streaming the local news station upstairs because it said if you were living around the area where we live, put your cars in a safe place – because there was hail heading your way! So off we all head outside for what is becoming a ‘normal’ routine for us. Daryl puts the tractor in the shed, I put the cars in the car shed, William puts his car and the truck in the Roadhouse. Next we flip the trampoline so it doesn’t blow around and stack all the lawn chairs. Yup, we have this activity down which in itself is pretty sad don’t you think? But then it started to blow and lightening. And I mean it was getting worse as the storm was passing by. It started to hail and at first it wasn’t so bad, but then the hail got bigger and bigger and the wind was also getting stronger. This is how the North sky looked –
and this is how the South sky looked –
I was in the house and I thought for sure that the windows were going to break from the hail and also our siding was going to be wrecked. But good thing – neither of these two things happened. I snapped this quick picture of the guys outside watching the storm. 
Then just as fast as it came, it seemed to be over. But then another storm was brewing in the south and we were just hoping that it would keep going East! We never did get that storm, but we ended up loosing our electricity for about an hour and a half. I took another picture of Daryl sitting outside watching the rain and storms. I’m sure he’s mostly just worrying about our crops and hoping that they didn’t get too much damage.
Before the electricity came back on, William went and got the handy dandy inverter that I bought for one of the local parade floats. We had a light and a phone charging. I mean what else do you need? 
The electricity finally came back on just in time to change all the clocks and head to bed. I think we got around 2 more inches of rain tonight. Man, we need some sunshine! I’m sure we’ll be wishing for rain in about a month – but for now it’s enough!
The photo of the day is some flowers outside our front door. The sky was kind of an orange after the storm and the color of these flowers were just beautiful!