IKE

Something happened to September
It was here a moment ago
I've looked all over
But it is nowhere to be found

The first 10 days seemed normal enough
Then "poof" the month was gone
When I look at the calendar,
I have to wonder, who took September?

I have my suspicions
There is talk in this town
Of a fellow who tore through here
And left trash all around


Where these branches landed is uncomfortably close to where my van would normally be. After an entire morning of being stuck in the house from the wind & rain, we were happy to go outside and clean up! In fact, a couple of times, we went for walks in the rain just to get outside and DO something.
We got lucky. All we lost were some tree limbs.
Some neighbors came over and helped us clean up the branches. One neighbor had a gas powered chain saw, and made quick work of the big ones. Jon had great fun helping the get the branches in the pile. You can see an entire tree on it's side across the street.
After helping us, the neighbors went with Charlie across the street to help cut up and stack the fallen tree.
Jon raked the leaves and small branches to be mowed over.The yard looked much better by the time the sun started going down!Jon had to be a ham for the camera!During one of our post-Ike walks, Jon did a face plant. He was pushing his Tonka truck, and fell forwards. That would be the scrape on the side of his nose.
A couple of weeks ago, we went to a park. We did a treasure hunt. Jon is a treasure hunt addict!

Jon found the paint, and decided to paint. Luckily, I had quickly put down the plastic. He was in the mood to body paint!

If you are wondering why the paper is so clean, well Charlie pulled through a few blank spots by the time this was taken.
Jon had a shower to get most of the paint off, before getting into the bath!
Well, this gets us mostly caught up. It took us a while to get our computer up & running. When power did come back on, the computer crashed. It took a computer tech to scrub the drive, saving our pictures for us. We had been borrowing Jon's super slow computer so that I could check email for work.