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A Tree Fell in Alabama & An Award

July 25, 2008 By Rhoda 24 Comments

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I’m SO honored and speechless all at the same time! If you haven’t met Layla over at The Lettered Cottage, go over there and have a peek at her wonderful blog, which she just started in May. You will be immediately hooked too. I just found her recently and have read every single post she has put up. She has honored me with a special award she just created called My Blog Inspired Someone Today. That makes me SO happy!

She and her hubby have amazing style and are renovating a small cottage home just south of me in Prattville. They are doing an amazing job with it. I love all the choices they have made. Layla just quit her job and is starting her own business. YAY! I know how hard that is since I’ve been there myself. Starting a new business is daunting and I sure don’t have all the answers myself since I’m so new to it also, but I do know it’s rewarding. So Layla, I wish you the very best with your new business ventures. I just know you’ll be successful and you’ll be doing what you love!

I’m going to pass this on to a brand new blogger (since May) . I’ve just recently found her blog too and it is SO charming. I think you’ll all enjoy it too. Sarah at A Beach Cottage, has some wonderful makeovers and is a thrifter just like me, so Sarah, I pass this award on to you! Thanks for the inspiration.
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Look what happened while I was at the beach house with Mary. I’ve been so busy, I haven’t had time to share this. That’s right, a huge oak tree in our backyard decided to fall down! I left on Sunday to go out of town and when I talked to my hubby that night, he told me what had happened that afternoon. We had several dead trees cut down about a month ago and thought we were safe. We did notice that this one was leaning a bit, but since it was still green, we didn’t give it much thought. Apparently, the roots were very shallow and a couple of big storms that came through recently with some great wind gusts just pulled it out of the ground.

What a mess! You can see how far across the driveway it went. We were very fortunate that it didn’t hit the house or a car. Our gate is demolished and we’ll have to get part of the fence repaired, but all in all, we were blessed. Hubby was at the gym when it fell, so this is what he came home to that afternoon. I missed it all and it was all cleaned up when I returned from Florida. I’m sorta happy I was gone at the time. We filed an insurance claim and it will pay part of it (removing the tree), but with the deductible, not everything. You know how that goes. I’m bummed our pretty gate got smashed and the new wood won’t look the same. Check your trees for weakness!

I’m so happy! We picked up the chest of drawers (I heard someone on an HGTV show call it chester drawers & had to laugh…did you say that growing up?) I had on layaway at the antique store and it’s home now. I got a happy little surprise when I saw the back of it and it’s a Thomasville piece. Old Thomasville, don’t you just love that? It’s gorgeous…I’ll share more about that next week.

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  1. justabeachkat says

    July 25, 2008 at 10:39 pm

    Wow….the good, the bad and the ugly all in one post!

    Good – your very deserved award and a great “chester” drawer find

    Bad – the tree falling and your gate damage

    Ugly – the mess from the tree and having to deal with insurance

    There’s awards for you at my place too.

    Hugs!
    Kat

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  2. Darla @ UltraBeautyBoutique says

    July 26, 2008 at 11:06 am

    Oh that tree situation does not look good at all. How sad, it was a pretty tree. Glad you are ok.

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  3. Marie says

    July 27, 2008 at 7:40 am

    I’m so glad there wasn’t more damage your home than the gate!! How scary.

    Congrats on your latest award. :o) I recently found Layla’s blog too… I enjoy it a lot.

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  4. Anonymous says

    July 28, 2008 at 9:56 am

    WOW you were quite lucky, with all the storms we are all experiencing I can’t believe more don’t fall.

    So glad nothing was damaged too badly…

    Kathy 🙂

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