Busy Life

It's been a busy past few days, and now that Userland seems to have gotten their server problems remedied, I can write about it. Thursday night, my dad called me and told me that my grandmother had just been diagnosed with colon cancer. I dashed off an e-mail to work, telling them I wouldn't be in on Friday, then drove the 90 miles to my grandparents' house, where I spent the weekend. There are still more tests to come, so no real prognosis yet for my grandmother...

Saturday, we had the mother of all windstorms. Several of the older sheds on my grandparents' farm were blown down, as were many trees. A limb broke off one of the trees near the house, and fell onto the porch, ripping the railing out of the concrete steps. Their dog was sitting on the porch at the time, but he escape with only a bloodied paw and a bad scare. Winds were gusting up to 70mph.