Update

I did not realize it had been so long since I last posted. Sorry. So...what's new?

The most excitement came from Hurricane Ike on September 12 and 13. Living in the Houston area, we got hit pretty hard. We lost 9 trees in our yard, but none of them fell on the house. We had four holes in our fence, but Wally was able to repair two of them quickly. The other two are pretty big, but fixable. We did have some leaking around our chimney and vent pipes. Since the house is only 4 months old, we are getting our builder to check the roof. There should not have been any leaks, even if Ike was a catagory 2 storm. We lost electricity for 14 days, but we had a natural gas generator built into the house, and it worked really well. We did not lose anything from the refrigerator or freezer, and we were able to make ice for our neighbors. All in all, it was a bad storm, but we were incredibly lucky.

We took some pictures of the downed trees, but have not uploaded them to the computer yet. I will try to post photos later, but I'm not making any promises.