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since I haven't posted for awhile either. We had a series of storms go thru over the week-end. Friday night they're reporting that a tornado touched down about 15 miles from here and there is lots of crop damage, many, many trees down in the whole area, etc. We were at Morgan Creek vineyard when the Friday storm came thru which is very close to where the tornado touched down. It is built into the side of a hill and has an outdoor patio area. We watched the storm from outside for quite some time but moved inside when the hail started. Then the power went out. We were in a safe area (under ground), with candlight, all the wine you could ever want, and food since they have an outdoor woodburning oven where they make pizzas. All in all, a pretty decent way to weather a storm. My car did not fare as well as we did tho - hail broke out one mirror and make some nice little dents in several places. We spent several hours cleaning up the yard on Saturday. Then Saturday night another storm went thru - this time with up to 60 mile an hour winds. We spent all day Sunday cleaning up the yard again. We were very fortunate in that all we had was a couple trees in the wooded areas of the yard and lots of branches and sticks . Theresa (a lurker) had siding and roof damage. It will be several weeks before all the downed trees are cleaned up around the area. There was a line of cars at the body shop yesterday waiting to get estimates on their vehicles.

What happened to those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer (that's a song....)? They aren't in Minnesota. This week is one of the first this summer when we didn't have to do anything. So what did I decide to do? Have a garden party. I have invited about 30-40 of the girls to come for a garden tour, cosmopolitans, wine, margaritas or iced tea, and lots of food on Wednesday. Got my supplies yesterday and I'm going to start on food today. Probably should clean a bit and mow the yard. I told them in my invite that if weeds bothered them they should bring a hoe. And, that hats were optional. I'll let you know how many came prepared to attack the weeds in the gardens instead of attacking the buffet table! My menu? All appetizers: Sante Fe cheesecake, pork tenderloin with apricot stuffing for sandwiches, Salmon Sandwiches (little guys), garlic bundles, gorgonzala fig tartlets... I think that's most of it. I better get started! Joleen in MN

posted by Joleen in MN @ 7:22 AM