Pictures of broken things

Here are lots of pictures of broken things. Probably way more than anyone would want to see. Broken swing in the backyard.
Giant piles of tree dandruff in our front yard.

These were taken near Momma V's house. The damage in that area was intense. Luckily Mom's house was not seriously damaged.

Our old house (where my sister lives now) lost all of the trees.
The Bradford Pears did not fair well.
The park near my Mom's house.
NBC satelite truck near Mom's house.

More from the porch.

Momma K's house.
The porch. This is the branch that almost fell on us while we were standing outside at 3:00 A.M.
Crunched candy canes. By the time the storm was over none of them survived.
The car/driveway.
The porch blocked with branches. We won't be going out that way.

There's a turkey on my doorstep and a tree on my car

We survived the great ice storm of '07.

We returned to our house this morning. It is still standing we just have fewer trees in the area. We actually faired pretty well. Our power is back on and we managed not freeze to death.

Power was out for approximately 63 hours at our house. Many others still do not have power. Our car was crushed by a tree, twice. We have some damage to the gutters on the house and the swing out back also was hit. The trees are still standing in our yard but we lost a ton of limbs. Our Christmas lights were obliterated.

We have a lot of work ahead of us but we are very lucky.

I had the bright idea of purchasing the turkey for Christmas dinner ahead of time so we had a 20 pound turkey in our freezer when the power went out. See what happens when I try to be prepaired. It is sitting on our doorstep along with the entire contents of our refrigerator and freezer. We thought the cold temps outside would buy us some time. We will have to throw most of the freezer items out.

I will post more later I just wanted to let everyone know we are OK.

This is the second bigger tree that fell on our car.
Yeah, the roof is dented in pretty good.
There is a piece of the tree bark actually embedded in the headlight cover but it didn't break. None of the glass broke. Not sure how.

This is the first tree that fell on our car. Turkey anyone? Notice the giant mess of branches blocking the porch.

This post has been delayed due to technical difficulties

We have angered the trees and they are attacking. Blogging will resume when we dig ourselves out of the branches and ice and get power turned back on.

In the meantime please enjoy some pictures from the Christmas parade.

Leaves and Lights

We have been raking leaves for weeks and it doesn't look like we have done anything. We have bagged up over 100 big trash bags and the leaves are still everywhere. We will have a ton of great garden mulch but I am tired of the whole experience. It's like we have angered the trees and they are trying to prove something now.

We have also been putting up Christmas lights. They look great and are putting us all in the Christmas spirit. It is a lot of work as well. We keep having technical difficulties. We get everything set up and a fuse will blow or something. I took some pictures quick while everything was working.

It is really starting to look pretty outside. Soon we will have some snow to reflect the Christmas lights. I will have to get some better pictures then.
Here is a pic of Kay enjoying and wearing her potatoes
Lobster claws baby!

Cam helping with the never ending leaves
Kay showing us she found a good leaf
Kay watching us work

In the pile

Christmas lights
More lights

Cam using the scoopers to pick up leaves