Manitoba gets a lot of big hail, as far as I remember. And yes, it can sure do hell on crops, livestocks, and gardens

Lately, over here in Canada (and United States-side), the weather has been a lot of extremes. Thinking about the summers heatwaves and now the huge winds and rains that messed up the West Coast a lot, and I'm sure glad I did Calgary before this week, as the highway between BC and Alberta was closed due to snowfall and avalanche worries.

Colorado, USA, had a huge avalanche that buried a couple of cars and sent some over the edge. Its on the news today.

We are mere mortals trying to master the land, and mother nature is an uncontrollable and unpredictable force that can and does go "pfffffft" to remind us ... adapt, or else

Kinda hard to run a farm or plan a garden ... BUT ... did the hail knock off all of those nasty deadly read spiders around there? And how common ARE those particular spiders?

Karmen