Fallen Trees!!!
The night we got back to Georgia from Cody’s Wedding (in Utah)…we found that we had a tree down in the backyard…and it just happened to slice right through the play structure out there. We learned later that another tree had fallen in the forest behind the house…and it was attached to our deer stand/tree house that the kids (used to) play in. One other tree (that we know of) fell across one of our four-wheeler paths (see photos of Liz).
I guess a major storm moved through the area while we were gone for a week. We do feel blessed, however, that none of the trees fell on our home or hurt children while they were playing outside.
Oh, one of our air conditioning units broke while we were gone too. Most of the bedrooms were too hot to sleep in. So after driving through the night (we left Utah Sunday morning and got back to Georgia Monday evening) we couldn’t sleep in our beds and get a good night’s rest 
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A direct hit! No more playing here :0(
...I guess Donovan didn't get the memo...
This is a BEFORE photo. This was taken back in July...you can see what the playhouse was supposed to look like.
The two trees had grown too closely together...I guess that's what made it unstable.
The bottom of the playhouse....
A super ugly crawl-a-mochie on the trampoline. Just par for the course in Georgia.
Looking at the play structure from the opposite direction.
Donovan and his buddies Dillon and Daniel went into the forest to play today and this is what they found....no more treehouse!
You can't see it here, but the two trees that supported the tree house (deer stand) were right at the edge of a "deep" ravine. A lot of the roots were exposed into the ravine. You could see (after it fell) that a lot of the tree was very rotted inside.
Donovan with Dillon and Daniel (twins) standing near the fallen tree (maybe not the best place to stand...now that I think about it).
Donovan has a lot of fun with Dillon and Daniel!
And this is the other tree that fell across one of the paths...and Liz...showing how sad we are about it ;-).
Ahhh… one of mother nature’s spectacular displays… I admit I miss some of those exciting storms… but don’t miss the heat and humidity and bugs and poison ivy.