Rain Delay

I woke up during the night yesterday hearing heavy ran so woke Bill up to tell him. Don't think he really wanted to know that at about 3:30 but he did turn the alarm off that was set for 6:00! They weren't expecting rain and after just planting one day.

So Bill and I waited for a while after lunch since it was still storming to the north of us and then we headed for Spencer to Del's Nursery. We took our house plans and pictures of all sides of the house. Dave there is going to put together some ideas & prices for us for landscaping including a patio in the back off of the screened porch. We've tried to make this house as maintenance free as possible so we've decided to go with a patio vs. a deck. We'll spend most of our time in the screened porch but just want the patio to put the grill on and not have to mow up against the house and window wells back there. We really liked the cobblestone we saw there. (should've taken a picture!) So that's the next project around here. The number of greenhouses at Del's full of every plant imaginable is amazing.

Turns out as we were driving north to Del's, the weather still looked bad so Bill headed west and then north so we missed being in the large hail that they got in Emmetsburg. Tim got over 2" of rain at his house, not as much where we are, and we heard about 3 1/2" just north of us. There was still a lot of standing water up there today.

Today I went to lunch at Our Daily Bread in West Bend with my P.E.O. group - had a nice time. There were 8 of us. Sounds like Bill & Tim have been working on their tile problem again. Bill was going to check the field on his way home tonight to see if it was dry enough to plant. (it wasn't but should be tomorrow)