Some Team Robinson Adventures! :)

On July 23 we celebrated 11 months of marriage! Okay we didn't really celebrate...but it was technically the day that marked our 11th month-- haha! Anyway, something else noteworthy happened that day... Lightening struck our tree! The tree in our front yard was hit by lightening during a very random storm that whipped through the area in only about 20 minutes. It was a really intense storm with buckets of water coming down and tons of thunder and lightening. After it passed I went outside to check on our flag, and this is what I saw:
How crazy is that?! Here are some more pictures of our tree...
^^This is the hole from where the tree had been.^^ See the burn marks from the lightening??

So sad...

There was some additional damage as well. Our flag pole was bent to a right angle! Also, our neighbor's fence was blown down. We were admittedly happy about that one because their fence is actually built two feet onto our property and we've been trying to figure out how to approach them on that...so we figured the storm created the perfect opportunity! Except that they went outside and nailed it back up within the hour... LAME! The day after the storm we also noticed that some fascia had blown off the sides of the house... so we have some things to work on! Here are the pictures of those damages...(FYI, the white flags in our yard are for training our dogs with our electric fence.)


Crazy stuff! One more little adventure to share...

A couple of weeks ago we came home from church to find Sugar in the kitchen looking very proud of herself! We figured she was just excited because she had escaped from the pen and that she had probably escaped by realizing she can jump over it. We were wrong on both counts. She actually chewed off the zip ties that attach the rest of the pen to Quincy's crate to get out! Quincy was in his crate, so he didn't get to escape with her. (She's actually been messing with the latch on his crate lately...one of these days she'll figure that out too!). Here's a picture of the replacement zip tie so you can see what I'm talking about...
Anyway, now for the reasons why she was so proud of herself...

1. she dug in my fern and left dirt and leaves all over my freshly vacuumed carpet,

2. she completely tore up the corner of my runner,

3. --this one is our favorite-- she took a chunk out of our desk!


Check out these pictures...




We really couldn't figure out if we should be angry or laugh!! I was getting progressively more and more mad as I kept finding things, and then Aaron took a look at the desk and just laughed!! We put Sugar back in the pen, fixed the zip ties, and now we keep a close eye on her chewing progress! (I have to replace zip ties about once a week! Bitter Barrier doesn't work...at least now we know to check!)



Well, I have a 15 page paper due today and I only have one page written... So now that I've exhausted all of my procrastination techniques (Facebook, Solitaire, Craigslist, blogging, ...), I'm going to get back to that paper! :)