Last Year This Time

Today is not just our wedding anniversary. It's the one-year anniversary of the Eagle Tornado.  Yes, last year we celebrated our anniversary by having a nice dinner on the deck, and then later a tornado roared through our neighborhood and left a path of destruction.

Last year this time, we were walking around in the dark, checking to see if our neighbors were OK, just beginning to get an idea of that destruction.  It wasn't until the morning came that we really got a chance to see the damage.  (Eagle Tornado, the Morning After)
 

All the pics - here.

Today and tonight we've had plenty of wind and rain, lightning and thunder - but thankfully no tornado this year!  We'll be happy never to have another one of those.

25 Years

25 years ago today, I married my best friend.  25 years!  How is that even possible?  It seems like just yesterday. 

And now we’re halfway through our 50 year trial.   See, when we got married, we said we’d give it 50 years – to see if things were going to work out or not.  If, after 50 years, we decide it’s just not working out, we can go our separate ways…
 
I’m strongly leaning toward keeping him, but I’ve got another 25 years to decide for sure.
 
Happy Anniversary, Honey.  I love you more today than I did the day we said “I Do!”