Productivity shows up at the most unexpected of times, doesn't it? :D Good to hear that Irene wasn't as bad as forecast and that humans, dogs, trees and bees are all OK!
Yep, all critters are present and accounted for! :) In fact, the chickens seemed to like the storm; between the time Bobby locked them inside the coop yesterday afternoon and this morning, they laid nine eggs!
We've had the leak once before, during another storm with driving winds and rain. That seems to be the fatal combination! :) We're going to hire a roofer to come see what the problem is. We stayed down the basement last night, but the first time it happened, it was no fun to wake up to a soaked bed! My husband at first thought one of our dogs peed in the bed! :D
Thankfully, we didn't sustain any serious damage. Some small branches are off the trees, and the roof over the bed leaked again.
The storm was no worse than a garden variety northeaster in this part of Boston proper. It was much worse further west and along the coast. Our trees scattered hundreds of leaves and twigs all over the yard, and the third floor bedroom ceiling (around the chimney) leaked again, but not over the bed! Mr. P is none the worse for wear in Princeton with very brief power and cable outages for him. There's quite a bit of flooding down there and scattered outages.
That sounds like our yard: small branches, leaves, pinecones ... our dawn redwood dropped some partially formed cones that are very strange-looking. And the Goldens will have fun dragging the sticks around! :)
I'm glad you and yours ended up safe and sound! Now for the fun of dragging everything back out of the sheds ...
Yay for productivity, and also for surviving the hurricane! So glad to see my f-list has done okay. It must have been quite scary in the run-up to it over the weekend.
Well, it's good that you weren't affected too much by the hurricane. We had high winds here, and grey skies, but no rain, which is unusual.
Too bad your parents were without power. I hope it's back on now.
Are you intending to go back to Ocean City? After watching scenes of Irene tearing up the beaches and coastal areas, I was wondering just how much damage OC sustained.
Whew...you really did get a lot done yesterday! It reminded me of the little Mereth and Talban figurines that you made for me. They sit atop a large, flat pewter candle holder on top of my headboard (which is a bookcase). Once a week (or so) I take them down, dust them, gaze upon them fondly, and replace them. The painting on the figures still amazes me because it is so precise and detailed for such tiny things! :)
As of last night, my parents still didn't have power, and Baltimore Gas & Electric is predicting up to two weeks to get power back to some people. Yikes!
Are you intending to go back to Ocean City?
We're planning to go back in the fall and take the Goldens. Lance has never seen the ocean; he'll probably be terrified of it! :D Today was supposed to be the first day back to school (but for the widespread power outages), else I'd probably be making big eyes at Bobby about stealing a couple days during the week.
It reminded me of the little Mereth and Talban figurines that you made for me.OMG! I'd forgotten about them! I still have my Gnome Away from Home; he sits on the shelf over my desk (I can see him now! *waves*); unfortunately, he doesn't get dusted as often as Meryth and Talban do. ;) I've thought about taking him to school because I think the kids would like him, but I'd be devastated if he was stolen (and some of the kids, admittedly, have sticky fingers). So he continues to enjoy the sedate life of watching me write and do
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Good to hear that Irene wasn't as bad as forecast and that humans, dogs, trees and bees are all OK!
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The storm was no worse than a garden variety northeaster in this part of Boston proper. It was much worse further west and along the coast. Our trees scattered hundreds of leaves and twigs all over the yard, and the third floor bedroom ceiling (around the chimney) leaked again, but not over the bed! Mr. P is none the worse for wear in Princeton with very brief power and cable outages for him. There's quite a bit of flooding down there and scattered outages.
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I'm glad you and yours ended up safe and sound! Now for the fun of dragging everything back out of the sheds ...
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Too bad your parents were without power. I hope it's back on now.
Are you intending to go back to Ocean City? After watching scenes of Irene tearing up the beaches and coastal areas, I was wondering just how much damage OC sustained.
Whew...you really did get a lot done yesterday! It reminded me of the little Mereth and Talban figurines that you made for me. They sit atop a large, flat pewter candle holder on top of my headboard (which is a bookcase). Once a week (or so) I take them down, dust them, gaze upon them fondly, and replace them. The painting on the figures still amazes me because it is so precise and detailed for such tiny things! :)
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Are you intending to go back to Ocean City?
We're planning to go back in the fall and take the Goldens. Lance has never seen the ocean; he'll probably be terrified of it! :D Today was supposed to be the first day back to school (but for the widespread power outages), else I'd probably be making big eyes at Bobby about stealing a couple days during the week.
It reminded me of the little Mereth and Talban figurines that you made for me.OMG! I'd forgotten about them! I still have my Gnome Away from Home; he sits on the shelf over my desk (I can see him now! *waves*); unfortunately, he doesn't get dusted as often as Meryth and Talban do. ;) I've thought about taking him to school because I think the kids would like him, but I'd be devastated if he was stolen (and some of the kids, admittedly, have sticky fingers). So he continues to enjoy the sedate life of watching me write and do ( ... )
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