It's Not Nice to Fool with Mother Nature.............

I told you that I would try get some pictures together for my blog, thought they would be pictures of the Frolic fabric and some other fun quilting stuff, but instead I have these.........

Last night we had the second storm, of what I would consider to be unusual weather for Maine, now you Midwesterners are used to this but not us folks here in the Northeast.   A thunderstorm watch and several warnings were posted for our area and after the one on Monday I was prepared for some strong winds along with thunder and lightening, but along with all of this came several Tornado Warnings NOT watches.  After the weather officials check out the areas where there is a lot of damage we will probably find out that there were several Tornados that touched down.  The northern part of my town is one area as well as several other towns around us. 

Our next door neighbor had two trees that were down across the road so we,  (hubby, me & son, Nate) went over to cut them up and bring them home for to use for firewood this winter (they don't burn wood) .  One of the trees snapped about 15 feet up and the other uprooted and fell over.  We were out after 9pm in the rain limbing and cutting these trees and will probably go back to finish cleaning the stuff on our neighbors property over the weekend.  We have two other trees that he lost on during Monday's storm, they were very fortunate and none of the trees did any property damage.  Here are the toys tools that we had to help us with the task (I wish I had taken pictures last night).

The orange "Cadallic"  has hauled many many loads during our

marriage, the newest is our 2305 John Deere Hydrostat (traded the older standard one last year so hubby could use it) and of course our trusty 30 year old Stihl chainsaw.   

Some of the fruits of our labor,  for most of the 26 years that I have been married we have not had to purchase any firewood, God has provided us with opportunities like this one! 

Whenever we get heavy downpours our side driveway washes out, on Tuesday we got a load of crushed gravel and tried to replace what had washed away on Monday night. 

So hubby had to go from these wheels.......

to these wheels....

He is going to drag the stuff that washed away during last night's storm back up the hill.  He has some creative ideas that we will work on to hopefully prevent more washouts.  One  "idea" involve me and a shovel with the "bossman" directing the ditch digging.  It's times like these, when I would rather be quilting, that I smile and I think of how our lives have changed in recent years, then I thank God for the trials and blessings that He has provided us with, because they have made us both stronger, spiritually and physically!

Gotta go and get my shovel.  God Bless you and have a great day!!