Who needs electricity?

Hurricane Ike hit Ohio pretty bad. We were lucky, only 4 trees down and a loss of power for 4 days. Not too bad. We lost alot of our food and thought we might lose the fish in the tank-but they survived. I did alot of knitting by candle-light. Working on another 5 Hour Baby sweater. We also read books and played cards.

This was our biggest tree on our property. The root ball is about 5-6 ft!!! It fell into our neighbors yard-just missing their pond.

This tree was dead anyways-Chip said it couldn't have fallen in a more perfect spot! We actually learned alot from this experience. We spent alot of quality time together and were very thankful that we had running water and the weather co-operated with us (no rain, not too hot or cold).

We were actually bummed when the power came back on. We were enjoying cooking out on the fire and using candles and flashlights at night. Plus it was so quiet. Our road was blocked from both directions by downed power lines-so NO TRAFFIC!! The evening we got electricity, we still cooked outside and still sat by candlelight in the evening. Now the kids are saying "no lights after 8 pm"! They spent most of their time this week (since there wasn't school), building a "house" in the woods and swinging in the hammocks!! aaahhh...simplicity...