May Wind Storm

Memories of dust storms in years gone by blew thru our area in full force on May 3rd...From breezy to 60 mph gusts.....the tumble weeds rolled by, roads closed, brown outs from the dust, trees uprooted, power outages-what a mess!! I came home for a late lunch and found one of our Blue Spruce trees in the front yard uprooted and laying on our house!! It was a tall tree but fortunately the smallest of the four Spruce trees in our front yard so no damage occurred to the house! Several neighbors lost trees and we were all out of power for about 10 hours. The kids made dinner and brought it up for us, Grandpa & Grandma Nelson & Grandma Chandler. Wasn't quite dark yet but we ate by candlelight and tried to keep warm-temps dropped to 30's that night!! We decided to take out all four trees and "remodel" the front yard....a sad day cuz I loved my "forest". The trees have been there for many, many years. The birds and squirrels LOVED those trees!! The biggest spruce used to bear Christmas lights for the Chandler kids growing up, and years later one of the "smaller" spruces were decorated by our family! Now my house gets LOTS of light-fun to walk into the rooms and soak up and take in the bright light-even the hallway is not so dark anymore!! I will miss our trees but I think I will love the sunny rooms!! Now there is alot of work ahead!! A new look is in the making!!


View of the uprooted Blue Spruce from the driveway.


View of tree laying on roof above our bedroom.


My bench is what caught my eye as I drove into the driveway....thought it was weird it was sitting unlevel.





View of the trees from our back yard.


Down come the trees.....











New look of our yard!!