57 Rings

It truly is amazing how we as human beings can be capable of so much destruction and chaos and yet in the midst of destruction and chaos we can come together as one. What we are 'capable' of is what separates the humans from the animals. A few days ago our neighborhood formed a giant human-cleanup Transformer. So many wonderful selfless people came together and formed sort of a tree removal and clean up crew!
We had about 18 people and 5 chainsaws hacking down the poor poor tree in the front of the house so we could all get our power back on. 5 days was just TOO long! I had to replace all the food in our fridge because it all spoiled! :(
Oh well... having to replace the food in our fridge is better than having to replace our roof! :) Here are some pictures of the clean up. The cute young boys helping out counted the rings on the tree with me... she was 57 years old.