Morning Storms

   
This morning I woke and checked the weather reports for our area and the Nashville channels were reporting storms near Bowling Green that were producing small hail. I dressed and went outside. I moved Linda's Mustang in to the lower barn and put the 4-wheelers in the upper barn, then returned to the house. About 45 minutes later the storm reached our location. Thunder and lightning were occuring often and within a few minutes hail began to pelt our house. Luckily it was only pea sized hail and no damage was done. The hail continued for about five minutes with a downpour of rain. After the storm had passed, I went out on the front walk and took the pictures above. A little after sunrise we went out and assessed the damage. The flower bed we had worked so hard on had the mulch washed into the grass and rocks from the driveway were in the flower bed. Overall though, not any damage to worry about, so we loaded in the HHR and headed to Campbellsville to the Overhead Door Company and bought a keypad for our garage door opener. Then rode on over to Somerset, which ended up being a real 'trip'. I used the DeLorme Earthmate GPS to find our route and it took us through some gravel roads in between farm fields, across a small creek, and generally through the untraveled roads. We wanted to enter the parkway, but the GPS had routed us alongside the parkway and the nearest entrance was about 15 miles ahead. We drove within about 20 miles of Somerset before being able to enter the parkway. We stopped at Paul's Discount Store and then Big Lots. Then we ate lunch at Cap'n D's, after which we headed to Aldi's for some food supplies. Then back on the parkway and the return trip to our house.