The road less travelled

Driving home on Friday (the snowy day), we decided to take a different, more picture-skew, road to normal, and had the promised reward for 'taking the road less travelled'... in true Houston style there was nowhere to park, or even walk, for quite a length of it, so we had to walk briskly along the road itself, and stand on a tiny inch or two of shoulder (without sliding down into the ditch) when cars passed, but it was worth it!





Less fun after-effects of the snow - quite a few of our more tender plants outside in the garden are now blackened and dead - most of the ferns, the bougainvillea, the hibiscus, the basil, other more tropical plants... we were able to zip up the little greenhouse, and the seedlings in there all survived, and we covered the lemon and it seems to have done ok, but a lot of the rest, even some quite large trees, have lost all the prettiness they had just a few days ago, which is a shame. I hope some of them will recover in the spring.

We've also had quite a bit of water get into the house, seemingly through the base of the wall, into the kitchen - the water is lying between the two layers of floor (new flooring was lazily placed over old flooring, by the people who had the house before us) so it's quite difficult to dry it out! The same thing happened, on a smaller scale, after Ike, and it got back to normal after a few weeks, so we hope to sort things out eventually.

Oh, and for those who asked about the video clip in the previous post - Rebecca made it, and sent it to us; I thought it was too funny not to share ;)