No Tornado Here, Just More Rain

So this was an eventful weekend.  Just not a ton done.

Yesterday evening there was a tornado touchdown about 20 miles north-west of me.  The photos seemed to indicate it just hit fields and woods.

Today I awoke to darkness.  I made coffee, spent time with my eldest daughter, and took the dog for an early morning walk so she could chase the neighborhood tree rats.  By the time we had made it home it was raining.

Which it did for most of the day.  Luckily for me, it was just rain, with a few spots of sun between downpours and lightning.  Just to the east of us, one or more tornadoes went through some fairly heavily populated areas.  Not the kind that level houses, but the kind that level trees large enough to level houses.  The closest that activity was to me was 10 miles east of me.

But I did get things done.  I posted this morning what I did in a break in the weather then.  This evening I built trellises over 20 feet of True Red Cranberry beans, planted Abekanabi beans and built a bean tower over those, set up two other towers, and planted one of them with Hidatsa Red Shield Beans under one of those.  I put in 20 feet of Moscow Bushy Cucumbers, and here and there on the trellises I put in some Peruvian Giant Lima beans, just to see how they do in varying places.  They cannot cross with anything I am growing so they are here and there.

I did a stupid today as well.  It is not a good idea to weed out Creeping Charlie near a beehive just after a rain.  There is a good chance that wet bees will be in the flowering Creeping Charlie and if you are pulling it out, you will get stung in the palm.  Getting stung in the palm does not relieve swelling in the knuckles.  It just hurts.

There was nothing done this weekend at either the Minnetonka Garden or the Ness Farm Garden.  The Ness Farm is more of a worry for me.  The 50 tomatoes and 30 peppers going into the Minnetonka Garden is something that can be done in an evening.  I have missed 30+ hours of working time at the Ness Farm.  That is going to be an issue later in the year.