Well, this week went by far too quickly! We did manage to get petcretary to let us visit *some* of you, hopefully we'll get to the ones of you we missed in the coming days, but who knows.
On Thursday when petcretary was at her work, (She is working all the Thursdays this month...), after 9 pm, in the dark, suddenly there were all kinds of flashing lights in our parking lot, on the driveway, and at the store across the street. Police cars, ambulance, fire engines, and one car on fire, straddled half on and half off the lawn by the driveway. It had jumped the curb, and rammed into an large evergreen, pulled it out of the ground and stopped just beyond the curb, before the left overs began to ignite from all the spilled fuel. The driver got out, and ran into the store across the street, (which is a very busy road, even at night), and tried to hide in a bathroom...yes he was intoxicated...and witnessed by one of our employees, who was just coming back from her break. Of course everyone who was working was worried about their vehicles in the parking lot, and petcretary's car was not that far from the wreckage and fire...thankfully the fire dept had it out before any more damage could be done. You could smell the fuel inside our building, and 2 hours later when *she* left, the stench was still there even though everything except the poor tree was cleaned up.
Some of the residents still up saw it all too...such things are very exciting in our normally rather boring place, LOL!
On Tuesday night, here was more violent weather nearby as a tornado (F1) thundered along about a mile or so north of where we live. When it started in the next county over, it did quite a bit of damage to trees, cars and structures, but no injuries or worse, thankfully. It had been unseasonably warm that day, so along with humidity that creates the unstable conditions for such things. We had more heavy thunderstorms the next 4 days as well. Sheesh! *She* did manage to get the yard mowed Friday afternoon, and after she got inside, yup, there were more thunderstorms! Some areas are having terrible flooding, but we are up on a hill, so that doesn't affect us, though if the downspouts are not replaced after moving them for mowing, we do get water in our cellar, which is a so called Michigan cellar, made with rocks cemented together. The grass (and weeds) are growing so fast, that one could sit down and see it growing, LOL!
For reasons we cannot figure out, our weeping cherry tree is NOT flowering this spring, though it is making leaves. Perhaps the late frosts we had after a warm up destroyed all the buds. Our redbud trees are slow too, but we can see the beginnings of their nice magenta flowers.
We have a few pretty tulips, and one regular daffodil. (Thanks to all who gave advice about last week's strange looking daffs., it is an ancient variety...called “Van Sion" or perhaps "Derwydd" . )
We went on a errand in the car, so here are our selfies from that:
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| Hurry up and get in the driver's seat so we can get going already! |
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| If I look a wee bit bedraggled, it was raining... |
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| The rain has to be very hard to make me look wet...not like Benji, BOL! |
