Summer Weekend Warriors – 6/22 CLEAN UP!

Well, this weekend started out with a bang…literally. Friday night we had an intense storm pass through just before 8PM. It was raining heavily and the wind was insane; in excess of 60mph. We lost several large tree limbs, one of which hit the roof of the house and rolled off into the front yard. Another hit the deck. The carnage was a little overwhelming, but nothing compared to others who lost whole trees, had extensive damage to their homes, experienced flooded basements, and/or were without power. We were in a very fortunate little pocket of maintaining electricity, while most of the neighborhood and a good chunk of the Minneapolis area were without for quite some time.

So, Saturday was full of cleaning up our yard and our neighbor's, who we always make a point to help out. We had great assistance from family and friends, and it took six adults six hours and sixteen trailer loads full of wood and brush to get everything cleaned up, with one patient teenager keeping Lucy occupied so we could all work! There is probably still one trailer full of miscellaneous little stuff in our yard, because we just lost steam and didn’t do a final rake. By mid-afternoon we were beyond done and exhausted. It did feel good to put in a hard day’s work, and even better that neighbors and friends came together to help each other out.

All I’ll say about Sunday is warriors one day, couch potatoes the next! We were all still pretty worn out.