You always hear about the calm before the storm, so it got me thinking about what is the calm? The calm to me was beautiful lush trees surrounding my house, my neighborhood my environment. A house in one piece with no leaks, no cracks, no missing tiles, no problems! Something I enjoyed everyday yet never really gave much thought.
So now to "the storm"...let me just say it was the worst storm I've ever encountered! We thought we were literally in the middle of a tornado! Our windows were shaking so bad that at any moment we thought they were going to blow, our house began to leak, the rain was so heavy you could hardly see out the window, the lighting and thunder was scary enough to make you want to hide under the covers, and finally after about 3 hours came the calm again...so we thought!
We woke up this morning, looked out the window and everything seemed fine. So we packed in the car to get breakfast and realized how bad the storm really was. There are HUGE trees all over our neighborhood that have been uprooted, tossed through block walls and into people's houses. Were talking almost every house on our block has had some damage! So we just couldn't believe our house and trees were still in one piece! So after we got home from breakfast Ryan began to clean up our yard and he came running in telling me I've got to come outside and see this tree! I'm telling you it was the hand of God that saved us! In our neighbors yard is a huge cottonwood tree that is now leaning over the fence and is ready to fall on our house, the scary thing is, is that it is right by Noah's bedroom. Last night when we were looking out the window we began to pray that God would protect our house and family and he obviously was!
So where are we now? As I sit here writing, I hear a few chainsaws outside working away, including our neighbor's cutting down "the tree"! It's a little scary, Noah is taking a nap as they cut the tree down, they've manage to hit our house three times already, so let's hope there is no more damage!
On a lighter note, we have an addition to our family. Not sure if I'm too excited about this, but our neighbor gave us a turtle and his name is Papa! Our neighbor works for the Game and Fish and somehow he ended up with four turtles, Papa being the dominate male so he had to go. So now Papa roames our back yard and apparentely all we have to do is build him a little house and of course pick up his droppings. Not sure what turtle droppings are like, maybe that will determine how long we keep him! So if you know anything about Turtles please inform me! And just so you know Papa (my Grandpa), our turtle will never be as cool as you or even come close to taking your place! :)
I have pictures to share but for some reason they will not download! :( Maybe later!
