Today was the last day to use the book it free coupons from Pizza Hut for the girls. I had another for a free pizza if you bought one. So, we ended up with 5 pizzas for a total of $15. Not to bad. Of course, we could have made it at home for probably $10. Meat here has gone up and DH likes meat lovers, the last time I made a meat lovers pizza at home, I could have almost bought the pizza cheaper after buying the meat ingredents....

It had been storming off and on all day. We had not been home from getting the Pizza more than 30 seconds when it hit. I had just put my car in the garage and boom. I was going to pull the tractor out of the barn and put DH pickup in, but was afraid to for all the lightening. Something about being in a metal barn and driving a tractor with a metal front loading bale spike sticking up in the air like a lightening rod, kind of nixed that idea.

A tornado touched down not to far away--in St Joseph. It took out 1 house and that was all. The house was right in town. Witnesses said it came down, picked up the house, moved it over and dropped it back down on the sidewalk. One person was mildly injured. A good part of NW MO lost some of their electric. Ours flickered, but stayed on.

Last week I completed a storm spotter/tracker class. I was all geared up to make my first report with tonights storm, but we didn't have anything to report. We had hail, but it was under 3/4 of an inch (we only report 3/4 of an inch or more), and we had 55 mph winds, but they already knew that because it was on TV. Actually TV said 60 mph, but my little weather dodad outside said 55.

DH (on nights now) woke up at 4pm, and takes one look at the cows and tells me we are in for a big storm later. He had not checked the TV or radio for the weather--he could just tell by looking at the cows and the way the were acting. The cows predict the thunderstorms very well, while the horses do a better job of advising when it will snow. You may laugh, but you can tell by the way they act, where the go in the pasture and which direction they turn as to what is going to happen weatherwise.