IKE has come and gone...

We were so lucky that Ike passed us by without doing much damage to the area. But, oh... the case wasn't so lucky in a lot of other places.

That crazy storm destroyed part of the Texas and SW Louisiana coasts and then took the wildest curve that hit Chicago and even Ohio, where Mary Anne lives. She lost a couple of trees and power for a while, too.

I just don't understand where all these storms are coming from. They don't make 'em like they used to. The big ones used to come along once every few years and didn't have the surges that they have now. Now, we're getting more than one in one season.

Thank goodness no one I know got more than they could handle. I sure hope that's all for this year. We need time to breathe.