It is the end of the day and Matthew and Ramona and Karsen are fine. Matthew said they have been without electircity since about 3 and other than the tremendous annoyance of that, there was really no dammage to the dwelling at 6538 Shinnecock Hills Drive, houston, texas 77069, however, a neighbor across the street has a tree down across her driveway. Down the street another tree is down, but neither tree hit any stucture. He and Ramona and Karsen have taken a drive in the nearby area to see the dammage which amounts to trees down, power poles down across 1960 to the point one can't get by except on two lanes, a storage facility on cutten road behind the shell station has a lot of its structure blown away and the large and previously low retention pond behind it is now full, although, it still has about three feet to go to over flow and the rain has stopped. He said the wind was fierce and since he was Karsen's age when Alicia came through, this is the worst he has ever seen. I called my friend, Bobbie McDonald and at the time when i called she had located a fork and spookn and was at the refridgerator eating all of her ice cream and frozen vegetables so they would not go to waste. She was doing the only thing she could do since her fence had been blown down and there was nothing she could do about that right now. She said a neighboy had his little son, who was running around in his underware and peeing in everyone's yard as needed, picking up all of the neighborhood's tree limbs that had been blown down by Ike, and the father had started a cook out at the door of his garage. Her first task post storm, she said, was to clean up all of her dog's diarrhea that had been released by him with the final wind blast of Ike. We can all understadn theneed for sweet release in times of stress. Bottom line is my loved ones are fine.

Today was Aidan's birthday party for friends and that was a lot of fun. He had about 12 little guests at the lazerquet place and had pizza, soda and ice creaam cake. Then the little kids received tokens to go to the arcade place and they just all had such fun. One of the daddy's even played some of the games and it was just a great, fun-filled event. The boys' mother came to the party and picked up the boys for the weekend. Michael and i drove home "boyless". The ride home was a lot quieter than the drive to the party, which was a fun event in and of itself. Michael is now at work until 11 or so tonight and he will work tomorrow too, so i have a lot recuperative time on my hands, which i enjoy. my plan is to go to church tomorrow and then the grocery store, the market, and the butcher shop tomorrow. Life is good, My family is safe. Blessed be the Name of the Lord. jk