Sunshine in my Soul

The last week and half have been really crazy with the weather.  It makes me grateful when I see the sun poking through the clouds and sending it warm rays down to us.  We have had lots of rain and a couple of tornado warnings.  One day we had a ton of hail in a short time......

I had just planted our garden a week or so earlier and was scared this will kill all my pepper plants.  Lucky for us they survived.  Brady thought it was snow when he saw the hail coming down so hard.  I was even more glad that our car was in the garage and out of this mess.  Others I know were not so lucky.  The next night was even worse, Brad had been out driving not realizing how bad the storm was and heard tornado sirens going off.  He headed back home and we turned on the T.V. to see the forecaster talking about this huge wall cloud right outside our neighborhood!  It was going to turn any moment into a tornado!  We ran to Garrett's bedroom window (the best spot to see it) and there it was!  Scary!  Again we were lucky and it did not touch down near us.  Storm cashers were all over this story because it went right over the town and was worried it was going to cause major destruction. 

A friend who was brave went outside and took this picture of the cloud heading towards the ground. 

After this scare we had 3 more days of rain, it was constant and flooding became an issue.  It took Brad an hour to get home from work because roads were closed and water came half way up his tires a couple of times while trying to get home.  Almost the whole state is in flood warming and a tornado did touch down in parts of the south.  Its so sad to think of those people in Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee who have died and have misplaced from their homes.  Which just makes it so much better when after all of this the sun is finally starting to come out for a day at a time!  This week may just make a day or two with out rain! 

 I think he can't believe that its the sun!  We hope the sun will help in drying out our backyard, and we may even be able to cut our grass sometime this week!  And our plants do NOT need to be watered but need that sun to help them dry out as well. 

 Don't you love the feel of the sun on your face after days and days of clouds and rain.  We just went out and stood in it and I had to bask in the sun, I think I now know what it means to bask in the sun! 

We need to get some sun do you see how white we are??!  So grateful that we have been protected from the storms and hope that the stormy season will go by much more uneventful.  That clean up will go swiftly to those who need it.  My heart goes out to them.