Welcome to the neighborhood...

... said the next door neighbor Sunday afternoon, sarcastically.
Not that she meant any disrespect, it was more like neighborly commiseration.

80mph winds ripped through the area early Sunday morning, shook the house from top to bottom, and left this in the neighbor's yard:



It also ripped out a screen door and dropped a few limbs on my vehicle, which now needs to go to the shop. :(



Could've been worse, though.. could've been like this neighbor a block away. Yikes! That's a sight to wake up to.



Maybe we got off light because it was a church-hunting weekend. :)



I went to St. Theresa's on Saturday. It's pretty close, lovely inside,



and had a reference to JustFaith workshops on the website, which interested me. Mass was okay, but not like St. Rose's was with good old Fr. Fitz. So I'll still check out St. Pius and Holy Trinity the next couple of weeks, and maybe the Newman Center in the campus area.

Then Sunday, after clearing the limbs off my car, we checked out a new urban church (and I use "urban" loosely given where we live..)



that meets downtown in a renovated Art Deco era Masonic Temple,



now used as a fine arts space, with some chic restaurants and coffee places at street level.



Pretty cool place, and neat people, very arts and community focused. It's the highest rated (yes, we have a system) evangelical church so far, with 2-3 more to visit.

So, God... now, about these storms...