Tape?

So much for the shed...
Originally uploaded by the golbys.

A couple of weeks ago, a big storm blew through here in the middle of the night. The wind blew, the rain poured down in buckets, and the thunder shook everything. I was even a little scared by it, although the girls never woke up. The force of the storm knocked out the power, and it stayed off for about 18 hours. We were lucky, though -- there were parts of the island that were out of power for days.

In the morning we were able to see a bit of the damage that the storm had done. Trees were down all over post -- not to mention on the house next door. Again, we were fortunate. Aside from the inconvenience of being without power, our only storm casualty was the Army-issued shed in our backyard. It was first thing Kathleen noticed when she wandered out onto the lanai.

"Oh, no!" she exclaimed. "Mama, house broken!"
I explained that, yes, the shed had fallen down in the night, because of the wind and the storm.
"Oh, no!" she repeated. "Mama, fix it! Mama, fix house!"
I told her that we'd all go out -- Mama and Daddy and Kathleen and Madeline -- and we'd look at the shed and try to fix it, but that I wasn't sure that it was something we could fix.
"Mama, Daddy fix it!" she exclaimed. And then she looked at us, perturbed that she had to explain such thing to us:
"Fix it! TAPE!"