We have 4 new additions to the farm and more coming in the next weeks! We’ve acquired 3 sheep (destined for my freezer and dinner table) and a goat as of yesterday. It was an adventure getting them home since we don’t have a stock trailer, but one trip to the junkyard did the trick. [...]
The storm that spawned this red rainbow also spawned grape-sized hail near Busby Alberta. Watching the clouds roll over our house was fascinating yet somewhat alarming since they were some pretty nasty clouds! It’s tornado season here, so whenever the storm warnings pop onto my cell phone, I have a look at the radar if [...]
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I planted 2 more containers in my front yard today: The round pot has a Christmas Grape Tomato plant, and a Yellow Pear-shaped tomato plant. Both give small cherries so should be great for the container…assuming they survive our daily thunderstorms. The other long, short, rectangular container is half planted with sage and the other [...]
After we got home last night, a big storm rolled in. It was producing nickle and dime sized hail!! Apparently the cloud was spawning funnel clouds before it reached Edmonton, though it’s rotation slowed by the time it reached us thankfully. Here are some pictures of how the plants were doing before the storm, and [...]
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On monday evening a big storm went through that spawned funnel clouds to the northwest of town in Wabamun, complete with hail and rain. The camrose plot got 2.5 inches of rain and some hail that wasn’t large enough to damage anything. We’re going down there tonight to check the progress of everything. We went [...]
