wind storm

Last Thursday night, we had a big windstorm - made a bit of a mess ... couple of trees blown over, broken branches all over the place, several trees snapped off at the top like this one...




... yes, that's the roof over the earth oven. I'm thinking I'll just leave it and repair the roof around it - it would make a nice "natural" touch. I'm not sure I could dig it out anyway - that was a long ways to the ground for a big chunk of wood like that. The tree it came off has a history of breaking at the top. A large chunk broke off a couple of years ago. Near the top, the tree is forked from previous breaks (two since we've been here). This particular tree is our only grand fir - all our other evergreen are Douglas firs. Except for sending huge masses hurtling to the ground at high speed once in a while, it's really a beautiful tree.

Here's the area around the cabin - another tree top fell on the cherry tree and took off a chunk of that, too (just to the left rear of the shed):


... and that was just the wind. We've had a lot of rain, too. And I'm just talking about this month. Last month (November), we had record rainfall, snowfall and low temperatures. Good thing we live in a relatively mild climate!

When we built the house, we put it up in the open area where large projectiles can't fall on it every time there's a little wind!