It was a dark and stormy night....

It is June in the Midwest.

And as long as I can remember it has meant thunderstorms, storm warnings and tornadoes.

I am frightened by high winds, yet totally in awe.  I love the moment when we sit on the hill and watch as the storms come in from the west.  I sit on the porch and listen to rain .... watch the clouds rush in and hear the sirens from miles away.

But early Tuesday morning was a bit of a rough ride ... I guess.  OK ... I pretty much slept through the WHOLE thing! 

Really.

Crash!  Crash! Boom! Boom!

Trees and branches falling all around us ............. and I'm asleep. 

Yea .... I slept through that.

And that! 

And large branches from 4 more trees!  And part of the neighbors' fence and a huge branch from their tree.

Yea .... a 20+ foot branch had the nerve to fall on the tea cup tree!

I know!!!!!!

If I had been awake .... there would have been hell to pay for that!! 

We lost ONE tea cup .... and that was because it took a direct hit from the branch.

But we got even ...............

That branch will burn in hell!!

OK --- it will burn in the woodstove. 

Close enough!