Last night we had a storm......Oklahoma style!!! About 11pm the wind started, the rain poured down [which is really impressive on a metal roof] and the power went out. We decided we had everything secured so went to bed. This morning we woke to find that the cottonwood tree in our back yard had several broken limbs. This time they hit the ground and went into the creek instead of through the roof of the shop like last time. However, two of our neighbors did not fare as well. One lost 28 shingles off his roof as well as 5 trees while the other lost a beautiful big spruce tree from the front of his house that took years to grow. This morning everyone is out cleaning up the mess. We thought we had gotten away from dramatic storms when we moved up here. Our neighbor, who was born and raised in Montana, said this is the worst storm he has seen in his 61 years.

Pulling limbs out of the creek.





Our neighbor's beautiful spruce tree.















At the back of our house we have a bunch of poppies that were just beautiful. Yesterday I was going to take a picture of them but didn't get around to it. After last night they got beaten around but they are still pretty. Moral of that story is, don't wait to take the picture!!