Our Weekend

 Big plans for the weekend - a trip to Logan for Mara Mae's birthday & lots of work to get done to be ready for state right?  Plans all changed on Friday night when this happened:

I tell my kids not to use the word "sucks", but I think this one qualifies as an appropriate time to use the word.  This just plain sucks!  The garage roof obviously collapsed at the ranch Friday night about 6:30 p.m.

a view from under the garage door

the cows don't seem to care - can you see the cute little one in the middle?

My boys breaking it to assess the damage.

Pat's car

Buster's truck

Earl brought the tools and the plan of attack.

holes in the roof to start getting the snow out

It looked bad!

the roof starts coming off

Jordan pitched in - for a while - bare arms & tin = 10 stitches - and he came back the second day - Thanks Bodilys!

Porter came to give moral support

ready to get the truck out!

We have awesome neighbors!

and awesome kids!

Megan earned her keep - she was the littlest one there and had to do the shoveling from the top - Go Megi!

How about this in your hood - wow, I still can't believe it.

Megi & Dave shoveling more snow

Earl's cool dump trailer loaded for the trip to the landfill.

2 days of work and this is the end result - Buster decided to leave the last section of roof because it is somewhat protecting the tools that were in the back of the shop.

It was quite a weekend.  The insurance company came and took a look on Monday & hopefully will get the process going to rebuild.  I know it has been extremely frustrating for the folks, but I'm just so grateful that Jim was not in the shop.  He had been in there just an hour or so earlier & Buster is constantly in and out of that shop also.  Thank Heavens that no one was hurt when it came down, thank heavens for insurance, and most of all, thank heavens for great neighbors who were willing to drop everything to help clean up.