Weekend Update

A quick update on our weekend. I took off on Monday and we all ran up to Thayer to help mom and dad clean up from the ice storm a few weeks back. The damage was unreal. Kim described it best saying "It looks like god ran his fingers down the trunk of the trees folding all of the limbs down like an umbrella." Here is a shot my mom took with ice still on the ground a week after the ice storm.

We started close to the house, and started clearing downed limbs and the snags we could reach. Mom took this picture of me up in the tree with a "Sawsall", as lugging a chainsaw up there was just way to dangerous. I don't know what is more remarkable about this shot. The fact that I was up that high, or the fact that tree held me.

Saturday night, we had a great hot dog roast with Aunts and Uncles we don't see that often. Even teleconferenced one Uncle in from Michigan.

Sunday we awoke to a nice surprise, about an inch - inch and a half of snow! The kids had great fun, but it melted quickly and was all gone by noon. We did more clearing on Sunday, and packed up to come home on Monday.