Baker Mountain worked it’s magic again.  The bad storms came and this time came up onto the plateau but when they came to Baker Mountain they split and some went east and some went west and met again on the other side of Baker Mountain.  The towns around here got heavy rain, high winds to knock down trees and several tornados touched down killing several people.  There were three really bad storms that came through one right after the other.  In one town the people all gathered in the elementary school for shelter, they stayed there for the first two storms and then left as no real damage was done to their town.  Forty-five minutes after they left the third storm came in and a tornado touched down and wiped out the school they had been in just before.  There was no one killed there but the school was flattened and carried away.  God was watching over them yesterday.  We here on Baker Mountain got one and a half inches of rain while others were flooded, we got some wind but only two small dead branches fell.  Not even the tree that is hung up got blown down.  That is the top half of a very large tree that broke off and got hung up on the other trees back about a month again, we were sure that would come down but we didn’t get enough wind to knock it down.   Our gardens loved the “storm”  we got less than 2 inches of rain over the two day period and they really needed that so they were happy.  It never came down in buckets like other towns got so not even the newly tilled rows got washed out.  We truly have the perfect spot for a farm.

The black berries are budded but not blooming yet so it is not time to set out the tomato plants.  Also they call for nights in the low 40’s on the forecast for the next couple days so we will wait until Mother Nature tells us it is safe to put them out.  They are doing well  in the pots we got them in but the four plants to a flat don’t give them much room to grow and I don’t want the roots to get too pot bound so today I repotted them into 3 inch pots so they can continue to grow without messing up their root systems.  Both the tomatoes and the pepper were growing like mad so I did both into the larger pots and when the black berries bloom I’ll transplant them into the garden that Norman has ready for them.  Norman spent the morning planting the butternut squash and is now planting a couple rows of corn.  That he will finish tomorrow and I will weed again.  Right now I have to go out and thin the spinach again and we will have that for dinner along with the asparagus I just cut.  They loved the “storm”  I just can’t water enough to keep them happy so they grew well the last two days.  We don’t get a lot at one time but enough for us both to have a small serving, that must mean it is time to move.  In every house we have owned we always started an asparagus bed and just as it was beginning to produce we sold the house.  Have a nice day and May God bless all of you as much as he has Blessed us!!