Hurricane Irene

We fared much better inland than the NC coast did. We've had some rain bands and some pretty decent wind gusts come through, but nothing more than we usually experience during a thunderstorm.

 We got out early this morning to take Sugar for a walk - and to work some energy out of the boys.  So far, the only large limb to come down in our yard missed the house by a couple of feet eary this morning.  The boys had a fun time dragging it around and pulling branches off of it - which they then used to sweep the streets during our walk (zig-zagging to stay out from under the tree limbs).