It's hard to believe that it has been so long since I last posted an update. Unfortunately, last month we had a large oak tree fall into our house as Hurricane Ike passed over our town. The hurricane had actually been downgraded to a tropical storm, after traveling roughly 700 miles across land, but that didn't stop it from knocking down more than half a dozen trees in our yard. They were all large oaks, and every one of them was lifted out of the ground, leaving the rootball exposed.  keep reading »