misc.

they had a huge hail storm in fayetteville last night---jc's wasn't so bad, although there was still some on the ground this morning, to which the accompanying image attests; but mikey, who lives a mile or two to the south, really got clobbered---his van all dinged up, gutters messed up, even some glass broken--- there was a pile of ice on his deck under a roof valley this morning that was still 30" in diameter and 18" high--- weather channel showed conglomerations of ice as big as a tennis ball down there---


but one of the phalaenopsis is starting to open!!!!!!!