Veggies "hailed" on April 20th, 2012

It’s been hailing here in our neck of woods every other day! Well, almost… it hailed about 3 times last week, but already feels like hail is the necessary part of April showers. A couple of bean plants got broken, but apart from that no other damage done.

The hail “granules” on Friday 20 April were about 5 mm in size. Dear husband said to the little one : “Go have a look! It’s snowing!” The daughter went up to the window, looked at the mayhem and said: “No Daddy, it’s not snowing, it’s raining with ice cubes!” Out of the mouths of babes…