The Storm

I thought I would share with you all what we were left with after the big storm. We were fortunate enough to not lose any power at all, as we never do. I think that our lines are underground as our back yard is on a main street. But I am pretty sure that the rest of our neighbourhood was out for at least 24 hours. I even know of a few people who's power didn't come back on until Saturday morning! They were all busy cleaning out their fridge and freezers and shopping to restock them...While we didn't lose power, we did lose a tree and our fence. Now our fence was in need of replacing anyways but at least it was standing up in panels.

We just spent a week of the summer trimming a bunch of branches off our two large trees in the back because Brian was worried that in a big storm they would come down and a couple of them could have come through the kitchen or bedroom windows. He wanted to take them down then but I kind of talked him out of it. I guess he got his wish afterall!

He is lucky it didn't take down our fence on the other side!!

....and this is what we are left with- a piece of plywood and a whole lot of chicken wire; so we can still let Jetta outside to pee. The broken fence panel is also gone now too and the right side of the trunk is cut down to the ground like the left side. It's all just chicken wire now too.

Well now we are adding a new fence on this side to our list of home renovations. I can't complain too much I guess as we have been talking about replacing that side for a couple of years now at least. Mother nature has ended our procrastinating!