Wordless Wednesday...After the Storm

Turns out we got luckier than I realized during those 'hailacious'  storms that rolled through here Monday night. 

These photos were taken at my inlaws' house. 

There was another  huge tree down over the creek in the woods behind the house but we were about to be late for baseball practice so there was no time for a traipse down through the woods...

This is right behind their house, that was thankfully spared.

I don't even know how that picnic table is still standing.

The truck miraculously seems to be spared too.

Cleaning up!



And the swing remains unharmed...
 Sweet.



Linking up with Alicia at A Beautiful Mess,  Angie at Seven Clown Circus,  Amanda at Parenting By Dummies, and Kristi at Live and Love Out Loud.

A Storm and a Song

Mother Nature was in a horrible mood here at my house last night.  We awoke around 1:30 a.m. to flashing lightning, howling winds and pelting hail.  In other words, she pitched a big ol' fit.  

 Luckily, the house is still standing and the only damage we had was the snapping of a large tree in the woods behind the house.  It's never a good feeling to be surrounded on all sides by giant old trees when a fierce storm rolls in so I was breathing a sigh of relief when that one finally rolled out.

Many are without power still.  Thankfully, ours only flashed off and on at some point, just long enough to mess up all the digital clocks in the house and to somehow manage to blow out Dracen's light bulb in the lamp beside his bed that he insists on leaving on all night. 

He burst into our room in his Hugh Hefner robe that is now getting too short on him and shouted out, "I can't sleep!"  I don't think he expected to find us up and peering out the windows but once he realized we were on board with his feeling that this was a serious matter, he calmed right down.   

Devin and the Darling wieners didn't feel it necessary to leave the comfort of their warm beds though Devin assured me this morning that he woke up and just chose not to get up. I wish I had gotten some pictures of the hail slamming into the deck and glass doors though truthfully, I was a little too frightened to stand that close to the door long enough to take pictures. 

In other news, I heard a song in the car last week on XM 7, the 70's station, that took me back to my 70's childhood and had me singing along at the top of my lungs.  I came straight home and googled it. Turns out it was released in 1971 so it is turning 40 along with me this year...in two weeks from today to be exact!   

I found an old video on YouTube of the band, Ocean, singing it back then.  It was at the top of the billboard charts that year...pretty impressive for a gospel song, don't ya think?  I haven't been able to get it out of my head all week and I thought it was especially appropriate today after the stilling of that storm last night.


Hope you enjoy it as much as I did...