Getting home to a clean house and yard!

We made the trip home uneventfully. Which after the news about the tree falling over in our driveway was a welcome circumstance. On the trip home, I decided to just follow the GPS and take I-10 to Jacksonville then I-95 and I-16 to Statesboro, GA then home on US25. I've always avoided that route, preferring to take the back roads through the middle of the state. I like the GPS route. It is very easy to drive, except for the 40 miles of construction on I-95. When you're driving a wide vehicle like our coach, narrowing the lanes with concrete barricades is jangling to the nerves. The worst of all was right here in Augusta!
Sure enough, the tree is down all over the garage and front of the house. I cut off the limb that was still lying on the garage to allow access.
The tree was actually the property of my neighbor, Richard. The way it works with trees is that unless a professional or your insurance company has told you to cut down a tree, the responsibility for repairs and removal is that of the homeowner that the tree fell on, not the one who owned the property where the tree originally was. We have cooperatively taken down limbs and even a huge cedar tree at our expense to protect our neighbors cars. And we've all helped to clean up after windstorms. That's the sign of a good neighborhood.
True to form, Richard has offered to pay the majority of the removal cost and another neighbor Melvin will do the work.
Micky's mom scrubbed our house spotless, and her brother's family kept up the yard. The surprise was the repairs that Rex and our friend Greg did to our deck. I had around a dozen boards that needed replacing. The work involved in removing the old boards after more than a decade and screwing down the new ones is miserable labor at the wrong height for humans. I was literally floored! Floored! Get it?
Coming home to such loving friends and family makes planning the next trip seem sneaky. But we are planning more adventures.....