Last Friday evening, Bob and I decided to go to bed about 9:00 p.m., and read our books. Shortly thereafter, we had some strong winds. Bob went out on our back patio and closed the two umbrellas. When he didn't come right back, I also went to our patio. The winds were amazing. They were whipping around the north side of our home. Our trees were bending back and forth. We were certain that we would have some downed trees. The lightening was also incredible.
In the morning we surveyed our property. We were very lucky, just several downed branches. We walked around and picked everything up. On the north side of our home is our next door neighbor. Currently the house is for sale and is empty. That side of our home had a lot of leaves down. We picked them up and went about our other chores.
A little while later, we went to the store. We normally don't drive through the circular drive; however, today we did. As we were driving, I shouted to Bob, "STOP"! The neighbor to our north had a huge blue spruce
tree. It had snapped in half. It was evident that the tree had been badly twisted by the high winds and then it snapped. We can't believe we missed it when we were cleaning up the yard. The tree was a beautiful blue spruce. It will be missed and hence the name of our story, "Twist and Shout".
WOW! What a shame, it's fortunate that it didn't come down on someone or something. I drove by Chigwidden last week after the storms that went through at that time. I thought for sure Mom's big old tree would look like the one pictured above, but it was still standing. It's surprising you didn't hear that one fall. I just hope when they do the clean up you are not trying to sleep in. It will give a whole new meaning to the expression "sawing logs" :)
ReplyDeleteHoney...they took the tree down this morning. It was a good thing we were up and had our coffee because it was definitely loud.
ReplyDeleteHow did Northville look?
Northville looked the same. It looks like the family room is painted a fairly bright orange. There seems to be only one piece of furniture in the family room, so the house doesn't really look lived in. They were having some type of work done on the side of the house by Tom's bedroom, not sure what though. It was a strange feeling to be looking at the house as an observer .... sad .... so much family history happened there and now some other family is making their own memories .....
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