A note about blogging...

(From Terence of course!) HA! oh - and Ed and I are completely stressed from replanning a wedding, but hoping that we'll have some good decisions made by this weekend...

Gardening after Ike

Well, Ike hit our new little veggie garden pretty hard, but everything seems to have made it through and it looks like our peppers quite enjoyed it!

2 Anaheim Peppers starting to bloom...hopefully the birds and bugs don't take them!
Yellow Bell Pepper starting out...we haven't been very successful with the Bells yet...we'll see if this ones make it...
All the peppers...

Carrots just starting to come up - they're supposed to be ready to eat in November!

Squash plants - most were uprooted in the storm, but we're hoping they return...

And of course the bag that pulls it all together!

As we all know, it's all about the accessories!  

More Clean Up

After removing the tree from the roof, we had to pull it out into the street...which was no small task!

Yay!  It's not falling on the house!

Ed feeling very victorious...

Evacuating from Ike

Although Ike was a tragedy, we had a blast evacuating for it!  We left town Thursday evening to meet Christina and Paul at a cabin north east of Austin, TX.  It was absolutely wonderful and I could not imagine a better way to ride out a hurricane.  Sadly, we had to return to real life by Sunday.

Christina hiding out the in play house talking to family about the Hurricane... 

Ed just getting out the hot tub...trying to relax as we wait for the storm to come ashore...

Our Cabin was called "Grin and Bear It" - so you can guess what the Theme was...

The loft to the Cabin - this cabin was SOOOOO cute!

Surfside Beach Houses for Wedding

As Ike barreled through Houston, it hit Surfside Beach pretty hard and carried many houses into the Gulf of Mexico.  Unfortunately the main house for the wedding, the Seven Views, was completely destroyed.  At least half of this house was carried into the water and the remainder were left scattered across the beach.  The Surfside Beach website (www.surfsidetx.org) was excellent about updating the website with photos of the damage.  Below you can see the original wedding spot:

The collapsed house in between the triangle house and the blue house is, or was, the Seven Views house.  The brown house to the right is the duplex, which appears to have minimal damage from this view.  

Also - this link shows an aerial view of this area.  The first few seconds show the collapsed Seven Views House.  As you can see, not many houses around this area made it through.  

Surfside Beach Damage

Hurricane Ike

Well folks, Hurricane Ike came hurdling through Houston Friday and Saturday causing massive destruction and wiping out electricity to over 4 million people.  All in all, Ed and I made out quite well with some minor roof damage from a large tree branch falling on our house.  Our neighbors had some major roof damage and several people in the neighborhood lost large portions of their fences.  Luckily when we returned home on Sunday, we had a significant amount of help from friends and neighbors has you can see in the photos of all of us removing the tree.