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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So the weeds came with a vengeance this week. This will not be fun to pick since while on vacation I nearly had to go into Emergency with some really bad intestinal pain. It’s taken days for it to go away and is only a bit sore now unless I move the wrong way. I [...]
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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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I went to Hole’s Greenhouse in St. Albert last night to get some replacements for the too windburned peppers and see what they had for vine tomatoes. I couldn’t resist the full grown and already fruiting Holy Mole pepper plant for $15 so picked that up. I also got about 16 other tomato plants to [...]
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