Coffee!!! And Updates

 

This morning, we got a very welcome message -- the wheel claim on the truck has finally been approved! Discount Tire will reimburse our $500 deductible, but the insurance company will be covering the rest, minus a 20% depreciation discount on some parts (another boooo...but resigned sigh). At any rate, most of the costs we have been absorbing for months will finally be covered. 

     Which is nice.

Another interesting thing happened today: a long rain/hailstorm that left more than an inch of pellets on our porch. Fortunately, we don't seem to have had much damage -- one of the benefits of a metal roof. Our garden is on downhill status, anyways. 

     I checked with a gardening friend on the Flats, and they didn't get any hail -- or rain, for that matter. Not a drop. Go figure.