getting started first blog
Hi, I live in Nebraska, out in the middle of now where, most people would just die living out here. The nice thing about being out here is the quiet, the dark nights, and the peacefulness of having no traffic, no people. Of course we have 4 legged kind of neighbors, the wild life is rich, we see turkeys,deer, many rabbits,many many birds, skunk, possums, badger, and lots more on a normal day. So now your thinking that could get very boring after time, Naaa, we keep busy with the house that is 77 years old and the 5 acres of land around us. Its so beautiful after a spring rain, everything is bright green, the flowers are just coming out. I have purple Iris just in bloom now that are just so beautiful. The trees are putting on there leaves, its such a renewal after a long cold winter. We are working on getting the trees cleaned up after the terrible Ice storm we had this winter twice. The grass is already a foot high from all the rains we have had, we are finally out of the drought hopefully.
The first week here 2 years ago we saw our first tornado that as about 20 miles from the house. We had just jumped into the truck to go to Mccook shopping and on the way we heard tornado warnings for the area we were driving thru. Ekkk. there is was a small tornado just to the north of us maybe half a mile. I got so excited, got out the camera and started shooting. The tornado never did touch the ground but It was so cool to watch from our safe vantage point. It finally ended up roping out and being pulled up into the cloud.
We haven’t seen one since, but we have had some mighty powerfull storms. A year ago March we had lightning hit the house, well the lightning rod that is. Yes all along the top of the house there is lightning rods that if your house get hit they will hit the rods and direct the energy to the ground. We had a direct hit which every thing that was on and running and not on a surge protector got fried. Microwave, electronic stove, and a power supply on a computer, tons of light bulbs. The sound was horiffic, it sat me right up in bed. All our buildings have rods on them. Oh yes the other buildings… the barn, grain building, wash house, chicken coop, and tool building.
The barn is straight, you must be saying shouldnt they be straight, well not all barns expecally the older ones stay that way they start leaning eather to the south or to the north becasue we have some high winds that come thru here. We have lots of trees for wind brakes so in the house we can’t tell really when the wind is blowing hard. There is a long line of evergreens on the north side that are used for snow and wind brakes. If we didnt have that we would have snow drifts up on the north side of the house really bad. As it is the November before last we had a 9 foot drift on the north side of the house from the Thanksgiving blizzard. This winter we didnt have a blizzard but we did have 2 ice storms that were really bad. There was as much as an inch of ice on everything. The temp stayed right at 32 degrees so we had little snow with the first storm 4 days before Christmas, but the second storm that was jsut before New years we had both snow and ice. Driving is almost impossible, we slid into a few ditches due to the ice on the gravel. A good wind can almost push you over when your on the ice.
We went and picked up my baby pom puppy during the ice storm it was a very long drive under those conditions. Every things was coated so even walking was a challange. But even with the bad weather I wouldn’t trade in living anywhere elce.
I have live alot of other places and no place matches or has the peacefulness that living here has. The last place I lived was Yuma AZ, had both of my daughters there and came to hate it. It was so dry and hot in the summer, the winters were nice but we had to work all winter so mostly you see the nice weather from indoors. That is one place I’d never tell anyone to live. We had days in the summer of 120 to 130, man nor beast can deal with that heat. We have had some hot days in Nebraska but they don’t last for months on end like they do in AZ. I guess there are some that like it and some that just live there for what ever reason im not sure.
So anyway now we are mowing and cleaning up the front yard, also getting ready to plant a garden. Last summer we had our first garden here, I had tons of vegetables to eat, tomatoes out the ears, squash and cucumbers. I had some compatition from the grasshoppers, they ate there fair share but we also fed the grasshoppers to my daughters bearded dragon, he got really fat and sassy from them. Its amazing you know how hard it is to catch a grasshopper well he has no problem, lightning fast! We dont use any chemicals on the garden so we can feed the bugs to him saves on buying crickets by the thousands.
With all this one of my main passions is quilting so there will be alot here having to do with that besides my maybe daily or weekly blogs on what were up to here in our corner of Nebraska.
I will post more later its getting late.........
The first week here 2 years ago we saw our first tornado that as about 20 miles from the house. We had just jumped into the truck to go to Mccook shopping and on the way we heard tornado warnings for the area we were driving thru. Ekkk. there is was a small tornado just to the north of us maybe half a mile. I got so excited, got out the camera and started shooting. The tornado never did touch the ground but It was so cool to watch from our safe vantage point. It finally ended up roping out and being pulled up into the cloud.
We haven’t seen one since, but we have had some mighty powerfull storms. A year ago March we had lightning hit the house, well the lightning rod that is. Yes all along the top of the house there is lightning rods that if your house get hit they will hit the rods and direct the energy to the ground. We had a direct hit which every thing that was on and running and not on a surge protector got fried. Microwave, electronic stove, and a power supply on a computer, tons of light bulbs. The sound was horiffic, it sat me right up in bed. All our buildings have rods on them. Oh yes the other buildings… the barn, grain building, wash house, chicken coop, and tool building.
The barn is straight, you must be saying shouldnt they be straight, well not all barns expecally the older ones stay that way they start leaning eather to the south or to the north becasue we have some high winds that come thru here. We have lots of trees for wind brakes so in the house we can’t tell really when the wind is blowing hard. There is a long line of evergreens on the north side that are used for snow and wind brakes. If we didnt have that we would have snow drifts up on the north side of the house really bad. As it is the November before last we had a 9 foot drift on the north side of the house from the Thanksgiving blizzard. This winter we didnt have a blizzard but we did have 2 ice storms that were really bad. There was as much as an inch of ice on everything. The temp stayed right at 32 degrees so we had little snow with the first storm 4 days before Christmas, but the second storm that was jsut before New years we had both snow and ice. Driving is almost impossible, we slid into a few ditches due to the ice on the gravel. A good wind can almost push you over when your on the ice.
We went and picked up my baby pom puppy during the ice storm it was a very long drive under those conditions. Every things was coated so even walking was a challange. But even with the bad weather I wouldn’t trade in living anywhere elce.
I have live alot of other places and no place matches or has the peacefulness that living here has. The last place I lived was Yuma AZ, had both of my daughters there and came to hate it. It was so dry and hot in the summer, the winters were nice but we had to work all winter so mostly you see the nice weather from indoors. That is one place I’d never tell anyone to live. We had days in the summer of 120 to 130, man nor beast can deal with that heat. We have had some hot days in Nebraska but they don’t last for months on end like they do in AZ. I guess there are some that like it and some that just live there for what ever reason im not sure.
So anyway now we are mowing and cleaning up the front yard, also getting ready to plant a garden. Last summer we had our first garden here, I had tons of vegetables to eat, tomatoes out the ears, squash and cucumbers. I had some compatition from the grasshoppers, they ate there fair share but we also fed the grasshoppers to my daughters bearded dragon, he got really fat and sassy from them. Its amazing you know how hard it is to catch a grasshopper well he has no problem, lightning fast! We dont use any chemicals on the garden so we can feed the bugs to him saves on buying crickets by the thousands.
With all this one of my main passions is quilting so there will be alot here having to do with that besides my maybe daily or weekly blogs on what were up to here in our corner of Nebraska.
I will post more later its getting late.........
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