Remnants of Hurricane Ike

Well what a day! It started out nice, but the wind gusts close to 70 mph in the afternoon and early evening gave us quite a scare. While thankfully, we and our house are OK, we had a couple close calls. The picture is one of two big branches that were blown from huge trees in our back yard. Kelley was able to tow them to the back of the property with the Allis Chalmers tractor. They did hit the house, but no real damage. We also lost one of our apple trees. Several branches broke from that. We lost power many times but it always came back on within a minute. All in all, we are blessed that we missed the worst and our hearts go out to the families in Texas who lost so much more than an apple tree.