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| Flowers and Herbs! |
The heavens are allowing this continuous down pour, which is drenching not only my animals and myself, but my garden! we planted the garden, flowers, herbs, and vegetables last week, the next day came the down pour! it rained and rained and still, rained. when will it end you may ask? humph, good question.
After a relaxing afternoon the sky began to darken around 2:30 p.m. or so, and it progressively worsened.
After an hour of the sky darkening and me lurking around every corner for a different picture (whether it be of my silly brothers storm chasing, so to speak, or just the sky), it began to pour rain!
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| The boys in the hall restroom. |
The boys and I jolted for the door as it began to hail and the sirens blew their ghastly horns towards our general direction. We were drenched from head to foot by the time we reached the door, and were then instantly shoved into the hall restroom along with my Dad. Can you not see the joy on their faces? just imagine seven people all cramned in there... nightmare.
The storm eventually came to a lull and now, here comes the fun part, we get to go play in the puddles! As the three musketeers (my two brothers and I) ventured out into the open, we noticed small crystals on the ground. Being a boy and all, the youngest boy decides to see how many mud-covered ice balls (otherwise known as hail) into his mouth at once.
Since our power is out, due to the storm, we decided to try and make taffy! It was for The eldest boys english class, and we had nothing better to do. our first attempt didn't end as we believed it should have. it evolved into a hard candy. Even though it tasted like laffy-taffy, it had the texture of Christmas ribbon candies. Anyways, we drizzeled it into a cookie sheet after it came to a 270 degree boil, and waited for it to cool; this is when it began to harden very quickly. instead of taffy, we decided it would make some marvelous suckers! How do you say... improvised? 
after our sucker shananagan, we attempted once more. after we had a guest accompany us at dinner, we tidied up and I went to sleep. at 1:30 in the morning mind you, I am shooken awake. "I got it Ruth! I got it" my older brother yells as he shoves a newly wrapped peice of raspberry salt water taffy in my mouth... ok, it was good; but not good enough to be woken at that kind of hour. for it says in the bible "If a man loudly blesses his neighbor early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse." Proverbs 27:14.
Well, I have exceeded my limit of anyoning random people on the internet, so I will head out for the evening. Good bye, and God bless.
