The wind is howling so hard and so loud that I barely heard the knocking at the front door, we have a doorbell just for that use but people around here tend to only knock. A neighbor from a few houses down, came by to inform us that she had heard a loud noise outside and noticed that a tree had come down in our backyard. So with that sudden news, Hubby as quickly as he could, climbed out of bed, we all threw on our warm clothes and went out back to check it out.
Oh the horror of it all! It seems that our next door neighbor now has one of his trees in our backyard. What a mess it is. The tree has landed right in our beautiful back part of the yard that we have been working so hard at making it a nice sitting area for us to enjoy. It didn’t get our garden, though it did take out a few of the lawn chairs, plus the fallen tree also clipped the back of the garage, took out the old satellite dish and there are now pieces of tree everywhere and boy is Hubby hopping mad. We have had several talks with this neighbor concerning several of the old and rotting trees in his yard that we were afraid were going to come down, right where this tree is right now. I guess talk time is over.
A call to our well paid insurance company has been made and it looks like we have our work cut out for us for the next few weeks. Hey, on the lighter side of it all, maybe we will get some firewood out of the deal, the cost of heating oil is killing us this year.