1 post tagged “tornado”
... since I added any random useless updates. As in, erm, a year?! Do you ever let things go SO long, that you no longer even know where to start?? Yes - that would be me, too!
So.. since that last post ages ago... we've had a couple more fosters find good homes - one of whom comes back to visit, since he lives with friends of ours. And each time he comes to visit, we realize how lucky we are to have OUR dogs, who are basically GOOD. We've added two more horses - who's primary purpose is supposed to be that they work for their kibbles as lesson horses. Sometimes it even actually works out that way. We're slowly slowly slowly working on the Farmette and building (hillbilly) Horse Habitats. My IT consulting contract with an unnamed-internet-auction giant ended last December, and I've been happily acquiring quite lovely clients with various web dev / internet marketing needs ever since, for which I am incredibly grateful!
Have had several good motorcycle trips, the longest of which involved a week or so up in WA / ID / MT and included
attending Evel Knievel Days in Butte, MT - which I'm glad we made, since it was Evel's last one. Have done a couple of trips to Deal's Gap - home of "The Dragon" and ample contenders for Darwin Awards. One was for the 2nd Annual Women's Sportbike Rally, and the other was to meet up w/ my friend Brad, who was on an around-the-US motorcycle trip (he blogs about that here).
And most recently a tornado ungraciously ripped through our neighborhood - and while only a puny one, an EF-1, which I guess means the winds were only ~95-110mph? - we lost many, many trees, we had ridiculous flooding and hail along with it, both our house and garage now need to be re-roofed, and we had silt, leaves, limbs, trees, and crud everywhere, and it melted the new riding arena which had only JUST been finished. The sheer manual labor of the cleanup has been a little daunting, I'll admit. Once we get all the Horse Habitats and paddocks built, we'll see where we might be able to plant some new trees. And with all that, we were very, very fortunate - we still HAVE our house, while many folks nearby are living in temporary accommodations, and everyone was OK.
Beyond that synopsis, I may even try to catch this sucker up, and expand with some highlights.
Before another year goes by.
Maybe.
And with that, hope all the neighborhood folks are moving into summer in good form. Cheers!
