So, so sorry about the garden. We had a "kitchen garden" on the commune, which we used to grow a lot of the food needed for daily consumption, and my grandparents had the same right across from the farmhouse. In both cases, they were A LOT of work and essential to the health and well-being of the family, so I feel your loss.
GOOD news about Anah! So very glad to hear that! There's absolutely no medicine as good as simply being young and I hope that, along with being very conscientious about the P/T, she'll be able to fully recover without the surgery.
Wishing your husband good luck with the insurance company. I know that can be a hassle to deal with but hope they help. My first, and so far only experience with that magnitude of hailstorm happened years ago when I was working at a Toyota garage down in Houston.
One minute I was hard at it in the middle of a busy shop and then I heard the first couple of "Tick-ticks" on the metal roof and I looked up and everyone was running for the doors. WTF! And then, literally seconds later, the aisles of the shop were filled with employee's cars!
Then, everyone just went back to work as if nothing had happened. It was an amazing performance and one of several weather-related events that happened in the nine months or so that I was down there. But at least I wasn't blamed for that one because it was something they'd obviously experienced before I showed up, lol.