One Landes Place

Here are some pictures of Matt and his little helper cleaning up his aunt's yard in Rosenberg after Ike left. We ran out of things to do so I let her have all the Tupperware she wanted!

Friday night was eerie. Matt and I put Sarabeth to bed around 8 and settled in for the storm. The windows were boarded so there was not much to look at. I woke up several times during the night to the sound of the wind and rain pounding on the roof. I peeked out one of the small windows we left uncovered and I could see all the trees laying sideways on the ground from the wind. We have tons of tall pines in our area and I could see them blowing so far over that I thought they would snap any minute. I eventually fell asleep around 10 and woke up around 12 when the electricity went out. It was so black in our house, I couldn't see anything. I kept taking my flashlight and checking on Sarabeth in the other room. I wanted so bad to move her in bed with us, but I knew that would make for an even longer night. Saturday morning we woke and watched out the one window as the storm continued. The pine tree in the yard across the street had snapped in half into the street and all the n...

Well I made it out of the hospital this morning, just in time to make a last minute run to Kroger(actually my sweet mother-in-law braved the lines at Kroger while I sat in the car) and came home to boarded up windows and the news of Ike on our front door step. I went to high school with a guy named Ike, he was huge-a linebacker on our football team. Just like this storm coming in, everyone was scared of him. Matt and Rigo are outside now getting the house ready for us to "shelter in place". What a crappy way to spend our weekend. I feel like do do by the way. This is going to be an adventure I'm sure. Thanks for your prayers for patience and that I will rest, so far I've tried to clean the kitchen and put laundry away. I think those are both off the list of my things to do for recovery. Go away Ike! We don't like you. Little miss Sarabeth has no idea what's going on around here.