We got hit with the first round of storms earlier this afternoon. We snapped a couple of quick shots of the hail out the doors.
The weather folks are saying we’ll be getting another round overnight. Joy.
Upon our preliminary inspection the, up to quarter size hail, didn’t do any real damage to our house but we’ll have the roof inspected by a pro after this week of storms in finished. Yes, I said week. The forecast is chance of thunderstorms every day for the next 7. Joy.
Before clumsily falling down the stairs on Saturday, effectively taking me out of commission for several days on end, I had been planning on posting this.
I have been playing with the macro setting on my digital camera.
I thought this was a pretty cool one.
The camera was less than 3 inches from the subject. The roots under our crab apple tree are sticking out of the ground and this cute little moss is growing around them.
Keep in mind this is an 8 year old digital camera…the media storage that it uses isn’t even produced anymore.
We’ve wanted a chimenea for years but the kids were just too young and it would have been dangerous. We finally decided they are old enough so I went with a neighbor and bought this one. I bought a terracotta saucer to put on top to keep the rain out but we pondered how to keep the rain out the big “mouth” in the front.
I did some thinking then sketching and came up with an idea.
Hubby scoffed at me, so I took it upon myself to make it myself. I started it yesterday but was unable to complete it before he got home. I hid the whole works because I didn’t want him to see it until completed. Boy is he going to be surprised when he gets home!!
Project cost: $0.00 I only used items we already had around the house.
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