Our thoughts and prayers go out to all those affected by the storms yesterday. Things got a little hairy here for a minute, but the worst of it passed to the North of us. We didn't even lose power, though I had both the phone and the kindle fully charged-- just in case.
Today proved blessedly noneventful. Yes, my big excitement for the day was to head back into town and get a new pair of rubber boots.
I went back to Wal-mart, thinking that they might have gotten some more in since Thursday. Sure enough, they had some in my size.
As soon as I got home, I put them on, went out, and worked on clearing off some more honeysuckle from my plum trees. I'm to the point now that I have to get somebody with a chainsaw to come cut down the other trees that have grown up through the plums. Might as well get the elm tree out of the pear tree and I can work on that one, too.
Jake did help me with one. I'm not sure what kind of tree it was, because it hadn't leafed out yet. I was pulling the vines out of the top of it, and Jake grabbed them and started pulling, too. After I'd cut the honeysuckle loose, the tree didn't snap back up. I shook it a few times, but it just laid there, draped across a few dead plum branches.
"Something is wrong with this tree," I said to myself. When I walked around the plum tree and looked, Jake had broken that tree right in half. It was a young tree, too, green and alive. About twice as big around as a broom handle, and he broke it like it was an old twig.
You know, sometimes people ask me if I'm afraid, living without a man in my house. I just smile, and say, "nope".
2 comments:
Jake is a handsome dog!
Thanks, Lou. He is such a sweetheart, too!
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