Mother Nature: Before and After

 

Thursday, March 29th, at about 8:30 pm

a storm, the likes I have never seen- , hit our area.

I learned something about myself that night that is pretty

indicative of my personality.


As my husband and I stood in the center

hallway of our house, I began to put on my shoes and a rain

jacket.

“What are you doing?”, my husband asked.

I said, “I am NOT going to be trapped under a house,

I am going to RUN out in this if I need to.”


And so after it finally subsided, and we were both safe,

and I didn’t have to do anything quite so crazy,

I looked out the next morning at what

Mother Nature had done.

Nine trees were severely damaged.

One will take days to cut up and haul away.



We have about six trees with huge , torn trunks and limbs.


The twin to this wrought iron fence is bent under all of this.

(Shattered glass from a patio table)

My tomato plants that looked like this,

now look like this.

I lost about 100 zinnias.

This all on the heels of my yard looking so pretty

and even festive.


But there is a lesson here.

      As my father visited this evening ,and we viewed the damage,

he said-

“You know Sis- when things have been whipped around hard,

they usually come back even better.”

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