Those darn crows!

Big storm last night, some rain, lots of wind, but nothing seemed damaged until...I checked on our raised garden beds.  Carnage in the green beans!

Something pulls the seedlings out, nipped them in half on the stems, and left it looking like this.  And we're blaming the crows!  Usually when I plant seeds, I used 2 or more for each plant...it allows for my possibly poor planting techniques, and then I thin them after they come up.  But did I do that this time?  No, one seed per plant so no extras for after the crows attacked.  I replanted the ones that were still whole and threw in some more seeds for another try.   

And then Leann made this frame--we draped the netting over the top, netting that we use to cover the grapevines in the fall until we pick the grapes.  If anything, the crows will fly in and get twisted up in the netting.  Oh well...

 This afternoon for Father's Day, Leann found a good spot for the metal sculpture she bought as a memorial for her Dad who passed away last November.  She was created by Sara Balbin and we bought her from Hoth-Lee Art Gallery here in town.  And she's reading and has dragonflies flying around her.  Perfect!

And, strangely enough, we had a power outage late this afternoon that lasted for five hours!  It wasn't really stormy in our area when the power went out, but we heard a tree went down on a power line west of town.  That doesn't sound like a 5-hour incident though; Xcel usually gets it back on pretty fast.  We went down to our friends at the Gallery where eventually we had quite a gathering of friends waiting for the power to return.

After the storm...