catching up Pt 2: earth

this is a picture i took of the clouds over my neighbor's house a week or so ago. i had been outside with the dog and then the clouds started looking very strange and ominous so i ran for the camera. about 2 minutes after i got inside, the hail started. it looked like this:





clearly, i was freaking out quite a bit. this was another occasion when i desperately was wishing i owned a working radio or could get a tv channel to check the weather. my computer is far from reliable, plus, i dont particularly like to have it on during bad storms. but there was BIG hail! thankfully, it only lasted a few minutes. but it was a very tense few minutes for beanie and i (well, really just me, she didnt know what was going on... but i snuggled with her and pretended as though SHE were the one scared and not me).
and this is how i spent my sunday evening: I MADE A GARDEN!! horay me!
it's clearly not very big, but looks much better than the patch of weeds looked before hand. and i think my $12 box of plastic bricks look lovely. i had potted plants in the back yard but there is a huge tree behind my shed and it drops little dingleberries everywhere and attracts lots of bugs and spiders (eeek!). so i hate to sit back there and cannot enjoy my serenty. so i swept off the porch and picked up all the newspapers strung all over it and then started playing in the dirt. my strawberry plant in the round pot is doing very well, even though i've only gotten one tiny berry off of it alls ummer. and a coworker gave me a bunch of chicks and hens, the green things, last weekend so i'm hoping they are still alive after sittng on the porch all week. and then i bought a pretty pink flower because i felt like it. the long pot has a new attempt at morning glories, this time WITHOUT the holes on the bottom plugged up. for a few weeks now the most sucessful plantlife i've had is algae on my morning glory pot. but no more! i think this will be fabulous. i need lawn art or something cheesy like that.