Then I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your tree down!

After almost five straight days of sustained winds in the upper twenty's and wind gusts of up to fifty miles per hour, we came home from work on Wednesday to find this:

It used to look like this:

The previous owner planted this tree when one of his daughters was born at least 40 yrs old.  It was about 35-40 ft tall, and leaned like the leaning Tower of Pisa.  I can't say that we were sad, because at one point we had thought about cutting it down to open up the yard a bit more.  Mother nature took care of it for us!

We took advantage of the nice weather this morning, and in less than an hour we managed to cut it up into manageable pieces.

It looks like there is going to be a nice brush fire in my future.

UFO Landing at Robinhood's Hideaway

Both LD and I have been lusting over the George Nelson Bubble Lamps for a long time.  Unfortunately (or rather fortunately), our house came with a bunch of cool light fixtures and we could not justify replacing any of them.  About the only light fixture we were not very fond of was the one in the sunroom, but we were not sure about how the light fixture would do in a room that is neither heated or cooled.

A few weeks ago, I was browsing Craigslist and came across an ad for a George Nelson saucer lamp at a decent price.  I thought for sure it would be gone by the time I contacted the seller, but amazingly it was not.  We settled on a price, and a couple of days later we picked up our new light fixture.

It sat in the box for about a couple of weeks before we finally got around to installing it.  We had been busy, but I think subconsciously we were both afraid of placing such a nice lamp in an unheated room.  The minute we flipped the switch, however, all of our worries were forgotten.