When the wind blows in Idaho...

...it really blows! Wednesday night the wind started howling. It was blowing so hard I could feel the windows pulse. I was afraid some of the windows might start to shatter so I made the kids come into the center of the house. One of windows did get a crack in it. Anyway, the wind was so loud that I didn't even hear the loud cracking sound outside- the sound of this...

A HUGE live tree was literally uprooted from the ground and landed on our shed! Randall was gone that night (of course!) He had taken Cooper with him and they were spaying our dog Sally for a Boy Scout activity- think vet science merit badge. Thankfully the wind blew the tree toward the shed and away from the house. And somehow the tree managed to miss pretty much everything I had stored in the shed, including my new Bob double jogging stroller!

The next few days were spent cutting and clearing out the tree.

Lainee Carson watching the action from the safety of the swing set