Sudden Whirlwind without rain and big tree gets lifted up out of the ground

In Georgia the weather can be unpredictable at times.

Like this SUDDEN WHIRLWIND without rain on Friday, June 19 of 1998.Quickly I grabbed our video camera and exited through the veranda door to capture our trees bending in the wind.A very dramatic sky came suddenly...Next I walked to the wood garden, across the creek where Pieter was working and he showed me a tree that got lifted out of the ground by this strong wind.Pieter shows that he can place his fingers into the opening created .If you click on YouTube watching you can see at clickable 2:23 how it is lifted up a few centimeters.Good thing is that both of us are not scared... 😜

Winter and our House Plants in Delft White Pots

HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all American readers!

Before I've mentioned how hard it was to keep all our house plants alive, while being away for 3 weeks at a time, doing consulting work.

With the water computer inside our greenhouse, things worked out perfect, together with a heater for the colder period.

Here is our excellent collection from that time...

When viewed on YouTube you can find English text below, with clickable points.Remember, we always talked Dutch, as those videos got mailed out to my Parents...A nice view of our Kitchen Bay Window and our Veranda—full with plants.

This was around Christmas in1985, our previous home where we had solid oak indoor shutters that were not painted white.

Me crocheting on some curtain with my feet up onto the leather foot stool.

You can see the same solid oak indoor shutters here now open.

Related links:

Houseplants in Delft White Pots in Our Veranda | previous post showing same orchid and some Christmas cactus

The often HIGH price of being AWAY for Consulting | previous post about what we found the same year...

Solid Oak Shutters REDONE: Now Professionally Mortise Hinged by Husband Pieter | our shutters in white

{Our 'GREEN' Bedroom} | showing the bedroom with shutters and windowsill as seen in video above...

{Our Living Room} | showing the white solid oak shutters

Thinking about Mom and Dad on Saint Cecilia

 Saint Cecilia is the Patron Saint of Musicians

Above video from Easter Saturday, April 6, 1996 is a nice musical medley with Mom & Dad and Pieter first playing the keyboard and later playing the organ.Keep in mind, this is just IMPROMPTU...The video can best be viewed on YouTube, so you can read the text below, where I've better explained with clickable points.
Songs being partly sung are: Thank You Lord (Dad) with Pieter playing the organ.Dad with Mom and our friend singing 'Ich bete an die Macht der Liebe', a German song 'I pray to the power of love' by Russian composter Dmitri Bortniansky (1751 - 1825) and text by Gerhard Tersteegen (1697 - 1825).Next is Guten Abend, Gute nacht (Good evening, good night – Brahms lullaby (1868).German – Strophe 1:  Guten Abend, gut' Nacht,mit Rosen bedacht,mit Näglein besteckt,schlupf unter die Deck':Morgen früh, wenn Gott will,wirst du wieder geweckt.
Strophe 2:Guten Abend, gut' Nacht,von Englein bewacht,die zeigen im Traumdir Christkindleins Baum.Schlaf nun selig und süß,schau im Traum 's Paradies.
English – Stanza 1:Good evening, and good night,With roses adorned,With carnations covered,Slip under the covers.Early tomorrow, so God willing,you will wake once again.
Stanza 2:Good evening, and good night.By angels watched,Who show you in your dreamthe Christ-child's tree.Sleep now peacefully and sweetly,see the paradise in your dream.                                                 Pieter also gets summoned by our friend to play How Great Thou Art (which Dad never had heard...).Video is ending on Easter Sunday at home and it shows that Pieter could not refrain from pulling some weeds!!!