I'm baaa-aaack! Did anybody notice I was gone?

[magical thyme]

4. the inside damage will be easy fix

already I'm caught up on dishes. This weekend will be massive laundry days.

But outside is another story. I lost an apple tree and possibly my beautiful 12' lilac tree on the edge of my garden. The lilac may survive -- it had 4 major trunks and the biggest of the 4 snapped. My lilac bushes came back from 50% loss a year ago, but I'm not sure a tree can handle that sort of loss, especially at this time of year. My peach tree lost a large branch -- I'm not sure if it was the dead one I was going to prune this spring.

I'm not sure about other trees that may also be lost. I'll have to take more inventory this weekend.