We had hail over the weekend, 12 hours before our main iris show and Rose Expo. aaargh.
I had selected some nice stalks and good roses to take in, and went inside to get the pruners. A half hour later, they were in shreds. We did get a bit of rain out of it, though. The hail completely covered the ground. Most was big marble size, some quarter sized. It has not affected the new blossoms, thankfully! I went out of town Monday and Tuesday, and when I got back, the iris and roses looked fine. The hostas are still holey, and will be all summer.
The grass is so green and tall all of a sudden. Tonight I went to mow, and mowed over my best garden hose that was hiding in the tall grass, and worse, it ended up wrapped around the rotors of the mower. Then, I discovered my cell phone had fallen out of my pocket. I searched every place I had mowed and had to email my daughters to ask them to call the phone until I found it. An hour later I found it inside of the mower, caught on the framework, undamaged. The mower itself is badly damaged from the hose. I really dread telling my husband about this. If I don't get the place mowed tomorrow, the grass may be too tall for this big riding mower! We'll need to find a baler or a brush hog, which is something we don't own, that I don't want to own.
ugh.
