The storm clouds definitely had a silver lining.
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Dead trees fell down and only hurt a few other dead trees. We got to buy a chainsaw. This helped us produce tons of firewood. Most of the dead trees were once pine and therefore, not really fit for in-home fire consumption. We hauled some down to the curb for the county to pick up. But that was a lot of work. We found a much less demanding solution after a short drive to our local Home Depot.
I present to you, THE FIRE PIT!
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Ok. I’ll get right to it: This one scared me. I woke up at 4am to howling winds and flashing strobe lights. I feared going to the window and look. I contemplated going to the downstairs bathroom to hide. I stayed in bed under the covers too freaked out to do either.
A few hours later, I woke again, this time to the whirl of chainsaws. The calm had returned although the power had not. I ventured out to see if anything was left in the neighborhood. Across the street a tree had fallen on a neighbors’ truck and was covering his entire driveway. Next door the very top of a 40-foot pine crashed down in the back yard, narrowly missing a brand new car. Debris was everywhere.
In our backyard, most of the dead trees were now horizontal. A 20-foot top section of what was (just yesterday) a 50-foot pine tree crashed down behind the dollhouse. A double-trunked (also dead) tree right next to the dollhouse fell down and came to rest in the “V” of a living tree, breaking one of its trunks. The dollhouse, much like our own house, remained unscathed.
In the afternoon, we ventured out of the neighborhood and found downed powerlines and trees. Friends and news stories confirmed we were spared the worst of what was apparently 2-4 small tornadoes hopping around.
Apr 01 06 – Apr 04 06
It had been way over a year since Nansox moved into her new condo and I still had not been out to see it. That, coupled with the fact that the Red Sox were opening their season in Arlington and it had been even longer since I had been out to a baseball game, prompted me to actually buy the plane ticket.
Once I arrived on Saturday, we headed to the Ferris Wheel or some mall with a name like that. It’s a new outdoor mall that is so ginormous that it would take two days and at least six lattes to explore all the shops. Luckily, we had a destination – Toni & Guys. We stopped at Starbucks first of course and then I got one of the better hair cuts that I have had in a really long time. The girl even tried to teach me how to accomplish such stylishness on my own, but I am hopeless.
Sunday we decided to get back to our roots, so to speak, and cruised over to Whole Foods. We bought tons of yummy fresh things and turned them into a fabulous dinner. Just like the old Hamilton House days, except we had twice as much counter space.
