NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

It started snowing at about 7p.m. last night.  This is 7:30a.m. this morning!

This is waaaaay too soon!  At least it didn't stick to the road so it shouldn't be around too long as it's only -1C!!  These pictures are for Sue in New Zealand.  I'm waiting to see her pictures as she is going to a place close to the mountains for the day.  

Birthday

Had a great birthday today.  We had a delicious supper at  The Keg!

It was so good and we are both stuffed, but so worth it!!

This & That

Saw this bug laying on its back in the mall the other day!!  Something to do with Beakerhead and science and engineering. 

 Beautiful day for a balloon ride, but I think it might have been a bit chilly up there!

 My latest bag of treat that DS#2 brought me from London.

 A last look at the roses before the frost gets them.

 The forecast is for rain the rest of the week, snow flurries on Thursday and a low of -2C!!  Yuck!!

Took a better picture of the bug from the upper level of the mall today.  It looks even creepier from this level!!!

Three meals a day!!

Isn't he beautiful!!  I was standing about 6 feet away from him. Too bad he's lost one of his antlers.  He came back to the crab apple tree across the street three times yesterday.  Hope he didn't get a stomach ache, or worse, after eating  all those apples!  Haven't seen him today, maybe he found some shade in this 40C heat.

Hail!!

We did get a few minutes warning so we put all the hanging pots under cover.

 These are the size of golf balls!!

 Two holes in a patio table.

Just a small sample of the foliage from different plants and bushes.

This hail was after a few seconds!!

 Most of my tomatoes are sheltered, thank goodness!

These three pictures are the roof over our deck with three holes smashed through.

The hail actually took the door bell thing off our door and it ended up on the driveway. We have a thermometer, like a clock, on our garage, that was smashed.
After a terrible winter with so much snow and now with a summer full of hail storms, this is getting really tiresome, to say the least.
At least our vehicles were in the garage.  Our neighbour doesn't have a garage so her 2018 vehicle is now full of dents.
What next?!!!

Trashed

20 minutes of torrential rain, wind and hail is all it took to completely trash all my plants.  They were so full of flowers that none of the greenery was visible.  Not any more.  They looked a lot better in my previous post of June 18th and they weren't completely filled out at that time.  The poppies in my last post-gone.

  

It will probably take me all day tomorrow to clean up and dead head them all,  Hopefully they have time to come back.😢

New

The poppies have gone crazy this year.  I have dozens of them.

I bought 2 blueberry bushes last year and planted them in the fall.  One of them has blueberries on it.  The other looked like it was getting blueberries but they turned brown and shriveled, so no berries there.

I bought two more bushes a few weeks ago and both have berries forming and this bush pictured had two ripe ones-one for me and one for DH!!

It will be 11 weeks tomorrow with the shingles.  It is actually PHN  (post herpetic neuralgia) now.  After weeks and weeks of excruciating pain it's finally starting to ease off.  I still get the pain but it isn't constant and it's usually when I have been out in the sun (heat), or when I've over done it.  I get periods off feeling good so I think I'll get 'whatever' done and then I pay for it later.  Still can't have a shower without paying for it later!  I'm starting to cut down on the meds.  What a slow process-I mean reducing one pill a week!  After three weeks I've gone from 21 pills a day down to 18!  I'm hoping to speed up this process a bit next week.
So much stuff to get done around here and none of it, or very little, getting done.  Very frustrating.
Bye for now.