It was obvious that this winter had been hard on our house and yard. On Friday the wind blew and blew and the rain came down sideways. After a careful walk around the house, I found much that needed to be done. There were some moments of sadness as we found our "adult" swings torn down from all the fury and sadly our fine fairy village had been destroyed. The occupants not to be found. So as we pick up from our very big storm we feel thankful that we can renew and re-create again. Don't worry fairy folk…….we're on this.

Underneath this very old apple tree are the remains of the fairy houses we built last fall.

Walls were blown down and flour sacks were strewn.

The fairy house in happier days.