Tuesday's News-Family and Season changes

It has been a busy week for us. the Fall season is a time for cleaning out the house and preparing for the wintertime. I need to start my cooking planning soon. Have been doing well with my weight loss, down 15 Pounds and still working on staying on the downward trend.
Family time has been busy. We had birthday parties and still have more to attend this week. School started and we have been working on a new schedule for after school activities. Exercise classes, Music classes and time for fair visits. Still need to go to the Renaissance ones. Maybe this weekend we will get to go to the Crownsville one. I want to find a good Honey for my Coffee sweetener.

My granny had her 94th Birthday, Happy birthday to her.She fell the broke a couple ribs but is doing well now. I spoke with her yesterday she sound great.

Need to mow the Lawn and clean the home in a few minutes. We have a crew coming to clean out the vents today. One of our Fall list of things to do. The Hurricane made me do some outdoor things already.

How is your season change activities going?

Aloha Friday.....Plans?

Well here we are in September. For us we have two celebrations. First is our Wedding Anniversary, this is our 34th. Then we have a long weekend due to Labor Day. I love the time of year. The weather can be hot our cool. Anyway it is a great time. This year we are going to go to Williamsburg and enjoy some time with family and some time alone.

What are your plans for LarborDay? Or if you do not celebrate this day, What are your special weekend plans? It could be a birthday, anniversary of some sort of just a holiday for you....

This is also part of Aloha Friday Post participation.
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Tuesday's News-A Wet Weekend.

Hurricane Irene made her presence starting on Friday. I had time to get down the gazebo cover and store all the furniture. We mowed the yard and tightened down the pool cover. This was the first time I had to store the Front porch furniture. Irene, even though she was down from a 3 to to a 1 category, still had a strong force.

preparing the yard for Irene.

We had heavy downpour and winds up to 60 gust. It managed to topple trees and flood areas. We had electricity outages all across our area. We had to run the generator for a few hours. We were lucky some are still out.

Schools were to start up on Monday. However, they were push back to open today. We still have 27 school without power. The ones with power opened today. Our daughter started her 12 year. I can not believe she is going to graduate and be off to college already! It seems to have flown by for us parents.
We got out and about yesterday and took a photo of one of the trees that fell on a house up the road.

Photos of the house

Look at the root size of the tree.....

Watch the tree removers work on the remover. It was a sight to see. the tree fell on a bedroom in the house. The owner seem to only suffered some bruises.

On Monday I returned some furniture back to its areas. Cleaned up the pool liner from debris, pickup some limps and check out the outside of the house for damage.
You see we had an earthquake the days before the Hurricane, so the winds could of cause some small unseen damage to increase. Noticed that a support block to our front porch was lifted and the heat pump had shifted some. I will have to call the service to check it out. Our solar panels did well. Was able to withstand the winds.

Well that's the rap up of our Long weekend. How did yours go?