Back to a war zone!

We got back this afternoon to what looked like a war zone.  The largest tree on our property got blown over in the storm they had here last night.  It's a very large tree and we thank God that it didn't hit either our house or the house across the street.  The wind blew such that the tree went down from SW to NE across our yard, in between two other trees.  This tree was pretty much hollow inside, and we were just talking that we'd have to have it cut down soon.  Now we don't have to do that.  I think since it's so big, we're going to hire it cleaned up.  We've got branches, sticks, twigs, and leaves all over our yard.  What fun.

Speaking of fun, we had fun this weekend.  We left yesterday afternoon for Waterloo, where we went out to dinner with Bryan and Erin.  We went to the Brown Bottle...used to be one of my favorite places in Ames!  We had a great meal.  Erin had baked Dave a Father's Day cake, but I was way to full to eat it!  After all of that, we went to Linda & Al's where we stayed all night in preparation for today's shower for Cassie.  It was lots of fun being around most of my family.  The shower was a good one.  We played games and watched Cassie open gifts and recipes.  She got lots of nice things!  Once the shower was over and the car was packed, we took off because we wanted to see the storm damage.  Ottumwa is a mess!  Even the Chief Wapello statue on top of the Courthouse blew down in the wind!  I hope they fix him and put him back up...the courthouse just looks funny without him standing up there looking out at the river. 

More later...