Truck meets tree

So yeah, a big branch fell on my truck. No wind, no storm...just a resounding crash at 12:30 AM Sunday morning. I awoke with a start to find an empty street and this...

and this...

I just had to laugh. The city showed up at 3:00 AM to do a little chainsawing. The neighbors weren't too happy, but somehow I slept like a baby. There's something about the sound of a Stihl...

So anyway...after my little wreck, the vandalism at 2812, my month-long-cold, and then this, I think I must have paid my karmic debt...whatever stupid little misdeed it's for (not that I buy any of that crap). Anyway, I've been pissing and moaning about driving this behemouth and now I have an excuse to buy something else and I don't have to feel bad about junking the gas hawg.

There's always, ALWAYS, a silver lining.

Hurricane Ike

Greetings! I thought I would put up a short blog about Hurricane Ike. It happened to come to Houston the same day Kelly's sister got married in St. Louis:
Tana however, was a total storm dog and weathered it through like a champ (reportedly) at a friends house here in Houston:Our flight back to Houston was canceled so we ended up driving back with Kelly's parents! We finally returned on Monday evening to a dark, but pretty much intact, house. We had no power for 10 days, it was turned back on for us on Monday evening. We celebrated by going out and getting some ice cream to put in the freezer (and turning on the A/C). We also had a ton of branches down (as did the rest of Houston) but we didn't lose any of our big trees. I thought I would put up a few picts of the house just post Ike.