Tag: storms
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Line after Line of Storms
Last night, after a terribly hot, oppressively muggy day, we were battered by line after line of dangerous threatening storms. The wind felt circular and furious. Rain pounded down. Thunder rolled endlessly, like a larger than life train was passing by. Out the window, in the strobe-like flashes of lightning, I could see the big…
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Rolling Hits of Stormy Weather
Nasty squalls hurled themselves across the landscape of the midwest plains last night. Wind, rain that sounded like hail, the roar of the storms, all flew above our heads like malevolent angels. Thunder shook the house and lightening kept Boo under the desk with his storm blanket on his head. The squalls came in banks,…
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THE DOOM CLOUD
You would think, and I did as I scaled the side of the stock trailer and pulled myself up onto its roof, that this cloud would bring destructive weather to the farm. It looked so full of doom. But it did not. The long black cloud merely tipped its sprinkling hat and rolled rumbling by…
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JOHN DEERE 490 PLANTER
Languishing in the back shed of a friend of Our John’s was this very old four row planter. The moment he was offered it John was in the truck and collecting it. As near as we can work out with the minimum of research this looks like a John Deere 490 Planter. Maybe from the…
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Disturbing Images
Followed by some very beautiful storm images. The images of Wai are the disturbing ones. So skip straight down to the storm images if you like – I won’t mind Wai the pot belly rescue pig has arrived and he is so much worse than I had understood. This poor wee pig looks like he…
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