Camp Dignity and "normal" life!

Well we lived through two weeks of no power. Life is SLOWLY getting back to normal for us. They just came today to pick up the heaping (now dead and ready for a match) pile of trees. It only took a month for FEMA workers to take them away. I am not completely ungrateful...the lawn guy wanted $300.00 to take the junk which I refused. We haven't been able to play out front...perfect snake pits. That and I cant tell you how many times I backed into the pile and drug the tree branches down the road. The grass is dead underneath and we are now left with the mess of what they did not pick up.

Life will not be normal for me for a few more weeks. I was taking one of my classes online. It was condensed into 8 weeks. Well with two weeks of no power one would think they would extend the 8 weeks to 10. NOPE! I have had a test every week in that class...one more to go! I also had a paper due in that class and huge paper due in micro. I have not even started the micro paper and it is due on the 27th. I have my research which is a major part of it but I wont even have time to start until Friday. Thats a lot of stress for a perfectionist like me. I also opened the school store for Chase. Yep I am a PTO mom...what in the world was I thinking? I actually enjoy it. It is a good stress. The school is ran by 6th graders. They are wonderful and so bright. I have worked with worse in my training days at Albersons. So life will be "normal" after Halloween.

I wanted to show you some pictures of what came to be known as "Camp Dignity". We left it up until the power came on. All of the neighbors in the culdesac would come out at night and hang out. The first week we drank more beer than we should have but we slowed down after the initial shock of Ike was gone. The real "funny" for those of you who are not from Portland is that Camp Dignity was a camp of homeless people that banded together and moved from place to place. :-) I am so sure the homeowners association would not approve and further more I could care less! Oh and we did have some suspicious people in the neighborhood one night. That prompted Joe to make the sign. Oh and the date on the camera is the date/month/year...I need a minute to figure out how to fix it...time I dont have right now.