The day after...Hurricane Sandy

We are safe and sound in NJ!  We still have power too!   Grandma is so happy we had those trees up front of our house removed when we did!  Especially that really big tall one that hung over our house!    A lot of the neighbors had trees removed when we did.  (What's that saying -- monkey see, monkey do.)  We are thankful they got trees trimmed and dead trees removed too.

Anyway, our street looks pretty good.  Nothing like when Hurricane Irene hit last year in August.   Last year at this time in the morning, all the neighbors were out front picking up big branches all over their lawns from Irene and raking up tons of leaves.

This year, not too many branches down from neighbor trees, and a lot less leaves since a lot of trees from the block were removed.

Maybe that branch hitting Mommy's car earlier this month was a blessing in disguise, not just for us, but for our neighbors too.  That wind was so strong -- someone's dead tree or branches could have caused serious injury around us.

It's too bad Mommy is still so frightened of tree branches from that branch earlier this month.

Mommy's head is hurting so bad -- probably from worrying too much.  (Seems like something is squeezing her temples together towards her skull.)

In any case, we just wanted to send out a blog post to let everyone know we are ok in NJ. Still the occasional gust of wind going on this morning, but it's nothing like it was last night.

We hope all our blog friends are ok too!

Here is a picture of our house this morning after Hurricane Sandy.   Hurricane Sandy decided to check our mailbox for mail.   I don't know if the Post Office delivered mail yesterday, butt, I guess Sandy decided we didn't need to pay any bills so, she got rid of those bills for us!   Thanks Sandy!    Oh, and Sandy decided to turn around that 1212 sign, it used to face up and down like the mailbox, but now it is more parallel with the house, and it faces the mailbox.  Mommy likes the way it faces now.  Mommy will keep it that way!    Oh, one last note, there was a little part of a tree branch on our roof between the front door and a bedroom window.  It got up their weeks/months ago when we still had our trees out front of our house.   Mommy told a neighbor weeks ago, I'm sure if there is a strong enough wind one day, it will knock down that little part of the tree branch that's up there --- Mommy was wrong!   The little branch is still there.  Guess Sandy likes that little piece of branch up there, so it stays!

Lassiter Chase and Benjamin Gilligan

Quick update on Sandy from NJ

Just a quick update from our place in South Jersey on Hurricane Sandy.  We are fine.  We are surprised we still have power -- but the lights have been flickering all day.

It's been a very windy and very rainy day.   We finally got a proper potty break at 8pm tonight when the rain finally let down.   Earlier in the day, Mommy kept trying to get us to go potty in the yard -- we were able to take quick pee breaks outside butt got soaked.  It was no fun -- trust us!   So, we were so happy at 8pm to get outside when the wind let down a bit and the rain wasn't pounding as hard as before.


Right now there is a bit of a calm spot.  But the news on TV says we should be getting bad wind until 6 am or something like that.  Maybe this is the eye of the storm or something.

Anyway, Mommy is so nervous with this Hurricane.  She still hasn't gotten over that tree branch falling down weeks ago that almost hit her, butt hit the car instead.  So, she is terrified looking out the window at neighbors trees swaying in the wind. 

Guess in time, Mommy will get over her fear of trees.   We still have some trees in our back yard, but they provide shade.   Hopefully Mommy will get over her fear of trees soon before she gets all the trees in the back yard cut down just like she got all the trees out front cut down earlier this month. 

Stay safe everyone.

Lassiter Chase and Benjamin Gilligan the Shelties

P.S.  Grandma wanted Mommy to post a picture of how she prepared for the storm.  Grandma got herself a big bottle of Prune Juice.   Mommy was supposed to post the picture -- butt she didn't.  Sorry Grandma!  Grandma thought everyone would get a big kick out of her Prune Juice preparation for the storm.

Halloween Trick -- Roll Over

Here's what we did on Benji's 1st Gotcha Day Anniversary - we came up with a  Halloween Trick.   So, in case we run out of Candy for the kids Trick or Treating on Halloween -- this is our back-up plan, a trick.

For those of you with 2 dogs, you probably know how hard it is to train us both to do something.  Mommy wanted to make a Halloween trick out of it.  She doesn't know if there is a trick like this out there -- who knows, there probably is.  Butt, Mommy thought hard about it and came up with this by herself.

Hope you enjoy the video.

http://youtu.be/xbm_svqDzUg

Happy Halloween!

Lassiter Chase and Benjamin Gilligan the Shelties (Lassie and Benji)


P.S.  In case you missed my (Lassie's) Card Trick from Halloween last year, here is the link to the blog post.   We got Benji a day or so after my Card Trick last year. So, that's why we wanted to do a Trick together on his Anniversary.

http://www.lassiterchase.blogspot.com/2011/10/trick-or-treat-card-trick.html