Mother Nature kicked our butt

[jeeperkate]

Sorry to hear. Good luck with the clean up!

[tom4bren]

Sorry to hear. Good luck with the clean up!

THX

Clean up is complete (except for stump removal). Just waiting on insurance adjuster's findings to start replacing damaged items. Got an estimate from the pool company yesterday - $2K to replace pool liner & pump.

In 2012, Kate just watered the lawn ... nothing more.

[tom4bren]

The front yard was just looking too nekkid without trees so we dressed her up a little yesterday.

We replaced the Purple Plum with a ... you guessed it ... another Purple Plum.

We replaced the SweetGum tree with a white Crape Myrtle. Yay! No more raking up prickly balls.

We replaced the Scotch Broom (smooshed by the falling SweetGum) with an Evergreen of some variety that has been sculpted sorta Poodle-esc. It sounds funny but it looks really cool. It even gets some blue colored berries on it (right now they are green but it'll look real nice when they turn).

We'll replace the Pine Tree that toppled over with a Silver Spruce but can't do that until September when the weather isn't quite so harsh.

5 hours of chiseling holes into VA clay. I broke one of my shovels on that stuff (God laughed when he invented it). I was starting to wonder if the fun was ever gonna end.

Still waiting for the insurance settlement for the personal property items so we haven't started fixin up the back deck yet.

[WormGod]

We got hit with something big yesterday afternoon. We were not home but got the weather alerts via cell phone. Once we got home, we found trees down and our backyard was a disaster. We USED TO have a bunch of vegetables potted on the deck. Almost all were destroyed. Lattice fence totally blown out, table umbrella apparently launched like a rocket since it was across the yard, deck furniture tossed about like tennis balls, and our 15lb pet dragon (statue ) was laying down on his side with his poor wings broken off. Our neighbors yard didn't look so good either.

Like I said, whatever it was, we missed it.

These simple thunderstorms around here this summer have been no joke this year.

[tom4bren]

We got hit with something big yesterday afternoon. We were not home but got the weather alerts via cell phone. Once we got home, we found trees down and our backyard was a disaster. We USED TO have a bunch of vegetables potted on the deck. Almost all were destroyed. Lattice fence totally blown out, table umbrella apparently launched like a rocket since it was across the yard, deck furniture tossed about like tennis balls, and our 15lb pet dragon (statue ) was laying down on his side with his poor wings broken off. Our neighbors yard didn't look so good either.

Like I said, whatever it was, we missed it.

These simple thunderstorms around here this summer have been no joke this year.

Dang son, h8 to hear stories like that. Hope your insurance comes through for you.

We were getting some pretty intense winds yesterday & I was getting kinda paranoid after recent events ... but nuttin happened.

I was suprised that all the lattice work I put in around the deck didn't get trashed but it only suffered 2 small breaks that could be remedied by wood glue & finishing nails.