Storm of the Century, Again

When was the last "Storm of the Century", where we cleaned up all the fallen trees and replaced neighborhood roofs? 2010? So, I guess we now get a Storm of the Decade. 

I am very grateful wind doesn't blow any of our trees into our house. We lost a little roof cap, but otherwise our home itself is fine. And, unlike some, we measured our power outage in hours, not

Here are just a few picture at our place of the storm on September 8th:

Lovely Morning Cacophony

Yesterday morning I felt I need to record the sounds of the Benge household in the morning. It is pretty amazing.

The high school bus leaves before seven, so Lucy can't play her instruments Monday and Wednesday mornings anymore. But when she is around, we have five children practicing at the same time, and the neighbor girl that Susie is tending shrieks along with them. 

Wonderful.