Weather

We always used to tease my Mom because she is very into the weather. She said it ran on her side of the family. It seems I have picked up the torch.

For about the past two weeks, it has been very humid and "unsettled" with lots of thunderstorms and isolated downpours, followed by periods of steamy sun. Basically, it has been very hot and muggy.

Our field is slightly elevated relative to the rest of the terrain around here, and it is essentially one very open 18-20 acre field. Today, when I was harvesting for market, it started to pour rain almost unlike anything I have ever seen. It rivaled the incredibly violent thunderstorms we would sometimes get when I lived in Minnesota.

So I ducked into the hoophouse and started picking tomatoes in there. But the rain was so loud against the hoophouse plastic that I couldn't even hear myself think. It was so loud it began to make me a little nervous, like maybe the whole hoophouse would come down somehow.

Just then, a chord of thunder ripped across the sky and I literally dove to the ground. Suddenly, I was very aware of just how open and flat our field was.

Needless to say, at that point I decided to drive back down to the house for a little coffee break while the storm blew over.