Whew!! First Big Storm of the Season!

And what a whopper! Just short of a 16' high tide and I thought we were going to lose the lighthouse light in the backyard, if not by a wave then by a log but the winds peaked and the tide peaked and then everything began to calm down. Jim and I were worried about Chris and Darcee's addition so we tried to get out there about 8:30 to give them a hand but got to the end of street and that was it. Kirk's beautiful old Ponderosa Pine was covering the entire road. We finally did get out there about 2 hours later and what a mess. The addition was fine though, they just ended up with a couple of trees down and a whole lot of drift wood all over the lawn. And what got me most was the rocks that pushed up as well. As we all threw logs and rocks back into the ocean their neighbor (the one that lives in our house) came whipping down his driveway in his BIG tractor and cleaned up his yard in about 5 minutes. There was serious envy going on. It's probably a good thing that we didn't get that house cause Jimbo would have to have had one and I can't imagine the damage he could do...

Anyway the sun came out and all was well and the next storm is supposed to hit tonight. Lower tides and lower winds though. Good thing cause they still don't have all the power back on in the valley.

The other good news (so far) is that JD is home from the pet hospital. He's been one sick kitty and he still has a long way to go. He went into complete kidney failure and we have no idea why. Could be food but then Oz eats the same thing and appears fine. We're still having trouble getting JD to eat but he's really picky and he's not liking the vet food so we're going to try something else today or it's back to force feeding. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. He is now the most expensive animal we've ever had!!!
We sure love him though.

So that's it for now and guess what it's not a bird!! Cute little guy, eh?