First up is a photo my moominbeach next door cousin sent me, taken from his deck to my little cabin past the big snowdrift. He often sends me pics of the Big Drift between the *moomincabin* the Old Cabin but I don’t think he can get over there at the moment. The moomin and the Old Cabin share a driveway and rustic parking area but we don’t have it plowed in the winter because both of those cabins are closed. My cuz, who lives in a winterized house that his grandparents originally built as a seasonal cabin, does the plowing. The Big Mac Bridge was closed more than it was open over the weekend and they closed it OVERNIGHT yesterday. I awoke to the text “Mac Bridge is OPEN.” Please be careful yoopers.

Back here on The Planet Ann Arbor, yesterday was a beautiful warm (close to 70) day but it started getting windy in the late afternoon. At That Batscope Hour, I used the water closet and the bathroom thermometer indicated it was still 57 outside. But the wind kicked up and the temperature dropped by morning. This stick (in our back yard) is “stuck” into the ground. Literally.

At least we aren’t dealing with this (a photo the GG took somewhere while walking down Huron today).

10 years ago yesterday, at that Bat Scope hour, a thunderstorm was going on and the GG got up to use the water closet. As he was perambulating around the Landfill, he passed a window just as a bolt of lightning EXPLODED a tree (or something) in the woods behind our house. We went back to sleep but I was up walking in the woods in the morning and this is what the tree (yes it was a tree) looked like.

And this lightning event shot tree shrapnel throughout the neighborhood, including this shard that stabbed our back yard.

The shrapnel from that tree explosion was much more sturdy than the one that landed in our back yard this morning and this is what another tree missile did to our Mean Green Frog Hoppin’ Musheen’s moonroof. (2011 Subie Outback, made in Japan and purchased in the Fukushima era but somehow we got it on time.)

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