Stormy Weather

Stormy Weather
This spring has been unusually wet. There has been more rain than sunshine. Gray clouds have filled the sky competing with the white ones. The rain has come in slow mists or sheets of blinding rains that are pushed by powerful winds. The music of the rain has been accented with rolling thunder and flashes of bright lightning. Sleet and hail join the orchestra with the rat-ah-tat-tat on my metal roof. I’m just glad that the hail and slleet at my house have been only small pellets and not the huge ones elsewhere. The winds have been strong at my house, but I have been spared the damaging powerful wind that has caused trees to be ripped up and roofs to be torn off.
Not so very far from my house, huge pines were toppled and homes were damaged. There have been assaults by the storms but God has given me protection. There have been tornadoes in the southwestern corner of Pennsylvania with power outages, but not the multiple days locally and unlike places like Pittsburgh. The power interruptions at my house were a few minutes to several hours only.
Early this spring we had a teasingly warm week. It was a taste of the summer to come with hot days, cool nights, and a bit of sunshine. That didn’t last long. A cold snap came in. The temperature became cold enough to make me break out a heavy jacket and gloves and aall the while the rains continued and the grass grew. Everything was green. It was difficult to keep the yard mowed with the extended periods of wetness.
Last year we were begging for rain because of drought-like conditions. This year is just the opposite makinf delays in planting gardens and crops. I will say that my apple trees and flowering plants have really been filled with bright blossoms.