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The branches are now all cleared up.
Well almost….. The tree guys eventually turned up on Thursday this week – they were meant to have been here Monday, and the downed tree has now been removed. The stump and the other half of the tree remains – we’ll have to get rid of that soon as it’s not stable. However most tree…
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Hurricane damage photos
I’ve posted a few of the pictures of the trees that fell when Hurricane Ike blew through Ohio. The crazy thing is that North Carolina (that was meant to get the hurricanes earlier in the week) was hardly affected. Hopefully some tree surgeons will be here tomorrow and my insurance people will be talking to…
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Homeward bound.
We’re heading back to Ohio today. The weather makes it nicer to leave at 5.30am when it is chucking it down with rain and being really windy – makes you feel you are not missing much beach weather. On the down side, it means you have to drive through wind and rain – ugh. Sometimes…
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The power is back – hurrah!
In ironic news, Ohio was affected worse by the hurricanes than the Outer Banks – we ended up without power for a day in Ohio but didn’t have any hurricane outages in the Outer Banks (although we did have a power outage when the weather was gorgeous). The good news is we now have power…
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It’s raining again!
Woke up this morning (at 4am) to the sound of thunder and then a short while later to bright flashes of lightning. The thunder continued to about 6.30 and so I’ve been up for ages. It’s still raining and it is too depressing to look out of the window and attempt to see the sea. …
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Ur doin it rong.
Today’s lolcat had a funny picture – all the more funny as the litter box in this photo is the same kind that we got – thankfully none of our cats have tried this yet.
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Rock Band Ultimate Set List
Kristen and I started playing the Rock Band Ultimate set list – all of the standard 58 Rock Band songs 1 after another. We got to 29 and have paused the game for tea and a rest – we’ll probably continue tomorrow so lets hope the power doesn’t go out overnight. So far we’ve easily…
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The toilet’s fixed.
A couple of weeks ago I finally decided to investigate our phantom flushing toilet. As the toilets in the US are nothing like the UK (really they are not!) I looked on youtube for some help. The first answer was to brush the rubber flapper seal to get rid of the crud that had gathered…
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More balloon photos uploaded.
This morning I got up early (especially for a Saturday) at 6am and headed out to Marysville Airport where there was hopefully going to be an unofficial balloon launch. I had no idea what time they were going to launch, but as I was driving down the road I was overtaken by a van with…
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British Invasion pictures uploaded too.
I’ve uploaded the photos from the British Invasion concert held in Dublin, Ohio from 27th July. The band plays a mixture of English hits such as the Beatles, Rolling stones etc. They are very good and also played at the Balloon glow last night too which was an added bonus. For more information see the…
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