Grandpa and Joe and thunderstorms

Grandpa Lansing and Joe enjoying a literary classic 'Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See?'. So this was taken last Saturday when Ed and Elsie came down for lunch and a visit. Then Joe, Elsie and I went to the local craft show at the town library. Cute but it was very hot so we really enjoyed the grape snow cones more then anything else. Joe was very curious about the whole ice thing. He liked it in small amounts but was not willing to endure brain freeze so if I got a little to much in his mouth, out it came. Joe had his first look at alpacas, not really interested in them. I know his father was very happy about that.

We had a quiet father's day. The next day, Monday was a little more exciting. The weather report had said rain and thunderstorms. It was peaceful until about 6pm when I noticed the wind was picking up so I ran out to put the pony and goats in. Well just after I shut the goats in it started to pour rain/hail side ways. So I decided to wait it out in the barn. As I stood there watching out the door the maple tree ten feet away from me split in half and fell right next to our chicken coupe. It missed the horse fence by one inch. I took some pictures and will try to get them on the computer today.

So today, Ed stayed home to clean up the mess so we could get in and out of the barn without difficulty. Our tree guy is coming over to see if the rest of the tree is stable or not. I am hoping it will be OK but this is wishful thinking. We will probably have to take the rest of the tree down very soon so that it does not fall on the barn.

Hope everyone else is doing well and that your trees are happier then ours.

Love ya Nikki