keeping the bag closed tight around it as she got it off the solar system. These are called bald-faced hornets and they are dangerous. They come swarming out to defend their home and each hornet stings over and over. Their nests are beautiful. Joan sprayed wasp spray directly into the bag then left it over night. This morning there were hundreds of dead hornets in the bag.
Tumnus the deer came wandering over to see what we were all looking at, then decided to join us and the dogs for the walk. He was funny around the horses, just wasn't sure what they were. Emma wasn't exactly sure what kind of animal this was and was a little worried about him in the beginning.
That is the deer walking next to mom directly behind Joan.
We stopped at the cabin to check out the work Mike is doing to fix the pump. The horses broke it but with the Yanmar Mike can fix about anything.
Next we went to Rachel's to see Lilly's perfect pudgy Pug puppies.
They are 4 weeks old now and just adorable fat round little Pug puppies. I think there may still be a few for sale and if interested in a purebred Pug Puppy just send Rachel a text or call at 309-360-4340. On the way home I stopped to snap the picture below of the geese making themselves at home on Rachel's raft.
It was not raining on our walk this morning so right after the walk Joan, Faith, Mackenson and Berlica came over to move the split wood to the wood pile. They were doing that while I was cleaning the apartment. The wood pile got moved before the rain started but the apartment didn't get finished until the rain was pouring down. As soon as the apartment was finished I drove to Sam's club to pick up the food for potluck tomorrow. The driving rain made driving horrible. The roads were flooded. Rebekah Martin posted the picture below, her apartment in Roanoke had to be evacuated.
Some areas in Peoria got 5 inches in a short period of time. At one point on I 474 the water was covering the tires and almost to the door and I couldn't drive more than 25 miles an hour. It has been raining off and on most of the day. Pam Fritzenmeier posted that her 8 inch rain gauge was overflowing. My guests arrived at the apartment this afternoon. At 8:26 pm the tornado sirens started up, the rain was pounding down, the wind was blowing hard, the lightning flashing, the thunder booming and all media was announcing over and over take cover a tornado is in the Hanna City area. We quickly jumped in our car and drove up to the apartment to tell our 4 guests that they must come NOW. While we were waiting for them to get into their car I called mom to tell her we were on our way. Just as we got to the end of our drive we could see lights from a car coming up the hill and then realized neither of us were going anywhere. A big tree had fallen across the drive. It was David Jacob and Zero in the car coming up the hill. He backed down the hill and came up our drive, called Luke and had Luke meet him on the other side of the tree and all of this is happening in the driving rain and wind. We had our 4 apartment guests back their car up and then come down our lane to our house and all of us packed into this little house to wait out the storm. Mom was called back to tell her we were not going to be able to get to her house. Mark was going to get his chain saw as soon as the rain slowed down when Matt popped in to say they (I think it was he and Anni but it might have been Matt, David Jacob and Luke) were able to push the tree off the drive. Our guests headed back to the apartment and we are hoping and praying we have no more tornado warnings tonight. It looks like we will be having big thunderstorms with lots of heavy rain but hopefully no more tornadoes.
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