A Week of Extremes

An earthquake, a major storm and a hurricane made last week an eventful week and a whole set of firsts for me. Never seen even the edge of a hurricane and never really felt an earthquake. I mean, we had an earthquake in northern Indiana when I was a kid but it wasn’t strong enough to feel. In fact, it wasn’t as strong as even the weakest of last week’s aftershocks.

But the land survived, the road survived and the creek grew high but didn’t threaten. We have a second crop of tomatoes in flower or growing green to yellow on the bamboo and twine structures I built before the storm, we have a dozen grape cuttings maturing in pots getting ready for next spring, we have a little Polish chicken laying her first little white eggs (the first white eggs from our flock, actually) and a dozen growing girls getting ready to lay in whites, blues, greens and browns. We even have a few little Polish and hopefully mixed Polish/Whatever eggs in the incubator ready to hatch in time to be ready to face the winter (we are cutting it close, but they should be fine).

So, with a few more tropical storms bearing down on the croft, here is an image from the end of last week’s stunning summer storm…