Home base for a period.

  A picture from the Past.

 

I think we are this tired after the trip, me gathering and burning limbs and Sherry catching up on laundry and doing the cooking.

For Today:

I am NOT complaining. Compared to the damage many have felt; ours is trivial.

We lost no trees. But those trees dropped one million limbs plus or minus a thousand or so. LOL  I am talking about little limbs that the winds bring down sorta pruning them. Away from the house you could not step without stepping on small twigs and limbs. So most of the debris was little 1 and 2 foot pieces. There were a few 3-6” thick limbs, I have one area about 100’ x 100’ cleaned up and burned. Tomorrow I will head into the woods to start clearing.

It is good exercise. I tell Sherry I am going out to play.  For me it is.  We were affected by one tree that fell across one of our drives. It was the neighbor’s tree.  It hit the power lines but did not take the lines down.

The tree was leaning completely across the road.  I called the power company 6 months ago about that tree and met their tree man to talk.  He looked at it and said, “This tree will stand years yet, it has vines supporting it also.”

Well it did fall, I am sure the tree man was not expecting sustained 50+ mph winds.

OH, I had a nice surprise upon my return.  My grandson Ben had come over and did work on the deck I have been playing with, he did some fantastic work; much better than I have been doing.

We do not know how long we will stay in NC before heading to Florida, but it won’t be more than 2 weeks methinks. Like everyone else, gotta the County/city property taxes here.  They are outrageous. We pay $777 a month here in Gaston County.

 We are not moving out of the coach, gonna live behind the house.

NiteShipslog

PS: 

So, ‘Thanks’ AGAIN to y’all for stopping by the Shipslog. It is nice to know that folks read this stuff.

PS 2: For sure got to wash the car and RV we were in rain on and off the whole trip home..