Tornadoes

Yesterday Springfield and Sturbridge Mass. were hit with two tornadoes and four people were killed.  It was a definite black funnel cloud and caused a lot of damage and injuries.

Incredible that it happened just 20 miles away.

We saw troubled skies to the north and it was quite stormy, but we got barely any rain, and just gusty winds.  No real lightning or thunder.

Later, after the worst of the storms passed, we got a short rainstorm that brought about a third of an inch.

Today is beautiful and sunny and breezy, very cool, only in the 60s!  The front, violent and devastating, passed through and brought this cooler weather.

Today I pruned the hollies on the berm (and got covered in ticks for my efforts.  When I came in and undressed I found about five inside my shirt, on my shoulders... hope I got all of them.  I deadheaded the hyacinths and pruned other things than needed tidying.

I think the spruce by the front door has white pine weevil again.  Not good.

Jim put up the weather station today.  It had been down since the post fell over last winter.  He dug a new hole and put in a new post clad in cedar at ground level.  Unfortunately one of the two cups broke off the anemometer.  It still spins, and it is recording wind speed, but I don't know if it is accurate or not.

The knockout roses are blooming.