OK, I finally got it painted white!! I still need to fill in some of the holes & the ends, but for the most part, it's done & I love how it looks. It most likely won't be long before it starts rusting through too...LOL! I used at least a dozen $1 cans from Dollar General to paint this bad boy! I have to say that they only contain 9 oz. of paint compared to other brands & the spray nozzles will make a sore finger in short order. This was easy to put together, once we decided how far the top door would overhang the side ones, he just lined up the holes of the brackets to the door, pre-drilled & then screwed them in with the existing screws from the door. This was definitely a low budge operation! LOL! In case you can see, I switched out the larger metal flowers I had on the barn door fence for some maple leafs that are made out of twigs! I just HAD to have them & bought them at the local Blueberry Festival this past weekend. I mention them because someone on here might be motivated enough to try to make them. TFL!!

There's Molie and Ms. Swan! So glad you're not floating down the river, Molie. And your photos of the swan have me considering how amazing it actually is, that birds and animals manage to figure out how to get through such awful weather. You would think they are so lightweight and small that they would just get tossed up into the sky, but they know just what to do. Bill, I did remember you were in RI, I just thought aside from Carl, you might be the southernmost member of the forum. Glad you got through it in good shape! Another 37 hr power outage, Jane?! Well, I guess it was an improvement from last year. Glad you are back in business. I think we did fairly well in our neighborhood too, in part because last year, we lost so many branches and after the power outage last October, NStar was here for a week trimming any tree branches that were near the wires. I thought the whole neighborhood did very well, then this afternoon, I had a service man here for an appliance and as he came in, he was saying ...'wow, I see your neighbor has a tree on their car.' I was shocked, because I had not seen it. They live on the corner of a street that is only a block away, but we never drive that way. (g) I had to go out and look and sure enough, there was a Spruce laying right across their car in the driveway. I imagine they are waiting for an insurance adjuster to get there. We didn't get the microburst in our area, but wow, the rain came down in a sheet of water for about half an hour about 10:30pm last night. More rain than we had in the previous two days. Thunder and lightning too. And today the sun was in and out. It was so great to see sunshine! Glad everyone is okay. Fingers crossed for Carl.

Saw the damage on the News. JUST AWFUL! We have had many gatherings at Prairie Grove Battlefield Park! It just broke my heart. A couple of my friends went to see the damage, but I did not have the heart .... Saw enough on the news! TERRIBLE DAMAGE. Sure is a lot cooler today 7-27! Turned out to be a beautiful afternoon! Worked in the gardens from 6-8 p.m. it was sooo nice! I'm going to have to get a rain gauge as I have no clue how much rain West Fork got. NOT ENOUGH, that's for sure! Nancy U.

Lisa, It's all about timing. Your hurricane formed right in the middle of a remarkable run of, I think, 8 named tropical cyclones in September 2010. With such a long run of named storms forming rapidly one after another, I think your hurricane got lost in the crowd. Sorry. Your hurricane formed way out there in the Atlantic and stayed way out there so it didn't get a lot of U. S. media attention. You formed from a low pressure system that came off the coast of Africa near the Cape Verde islands. For a while, tropical weather watchers weren't sure you'd make it up to hurricane strength, but you did, becoming a Category One hurricane with a small pinhole eye. You were forming in the Atlantic as Karl was winding down in the Caribbean. If you'd like to read more about your hurricane, you can click on the link to Wikipedia below. Don't worry....we'll just wait another six years for your name to be used again. They recycle the current naming lists, except that countries can petition for a storm name to be retired if that particular storm was a traumatic one for that nation's people. Since you were a nice hurricane in 2010, your name is at no risk of being retired. It's a good thing we don't name tornadoes or earthquakes in this state, because if we did, it is likely we'd run out of names. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: 2010 Hurricane Data