This morning, before coffee, a big wind storm hit. One hive out of ten blew over and two hives lost their covers. The corn and the tallest plants look like they are done for, but maybe they are ok. We didn't loose any trees, but we had to saw our way out when we got to the township road to get into town for coffee and news and power. Big trees are down. It's a sad sight.
After further inspection of the woods, we find that we lost some big oak trees, a couple of big spruce, and many poplars. All the sunflowers and dahlias and dill and tomatoes and eggplant are blown over. The big prairie plants, like goldenrod and bee balm and joe pye weed are down, but they will probably revive. The vegetables may revive. I'm networking at the coffee shop in town with a smoothie and taking ice and gin and tonic home. We may not have power for another day or so. We do have a generator, but only for emergency electric needs.
