Got out here a few hours ago, to find the Rancho more or less intact. The house, completely -- and though the power was out for four days, the milk in the fridge hadn't spoiled. Good thing, too, because I had a helluva headache when I got here and needed caffeine immediately. We lost a big tree on the south, which took down some assorted branches and vines from the trees around it; and all the trees lost a lot of leaves, so the view from the backyard is considerably less lush than it once was. The garden looks bedraggled and beaten but is all there, and the kousa dogwood did very well. That's good because its berries have ripened, and the birds love them. There's a lot of bird noise here this afternoon. I think all the birds are still getting used to the new tree arrangements all over the neighborhood. The butterfly bush took a beating, but the nice thing about a butterfly bush is, you cut it back practically to the ground each year and it comes back fuller and more thrilling.