Streak of Bad Luck

The past week was my first week back at work. As if that weren't stressful enough, we have had two HUGE trees fall in our yard. The first fell on Sunday night around 9:30. I seriously thought that it was an earthquake even though Richard laughed at me. We had no clue what caused the loud noise and house to shake. We even went down into the garage armed with a gun! We opened the garage to see a HUGE tree covered our driveway in front of our garage. Luckily, I had backed the Pathfinder into the garage, otherwise I never would have been able to leave for work on Monday. What alarmed us the most was that there was no wind, no storm, no reason for the tree to fall. AND, we had all just been outside watching Kamdyn ride on the driveway on her tricyle. We would have all been seriously injured or even worse if the tree had fallen only 3 hours earlier. Did I mention that this wasn't a tree on our lot, but on a vacant lot next door to us? Richard spent much of the day on Monday cutting up the tree and hauling it over the vacant lot beside ours. We thought the tree madness was OVER!!

This is part of the tree that still remains beside our drive way. The rest of the tree split and landed on our driveway. I suspect that this tree won't stay standing much longer.


The tree to the right used to have a HUGE limb/trunk attached to it.



On Tuesday night we had an awful storm. This time the top of a tree, which was huge too, flew over onto our dock and into the rocks beside our dock. Our awesome neighbors came over to help Richard get rid of as much of it as possible; however, the HUGE tree truck was impossible to move. It also punched a hole in our dock. After attempting to get the rest of the tree out alone, almost breaking his arm, falling into the River with chain saw, Richard finally accepted defeat and is having someone come and remove the tree. I hope this is all of the tree falling for a while! So much for leaving the trees for aesthetic appeal. I guess we should have cleared all of them when we started building!

Hole in dock = an unhappy Richard


Huge tree on the rocks beside the dock.


Brush and tree that fell from the storm.


This area used to be nice and neat with only rock visible. Now it is filled with a tree and LOTS of ugly brush from the storm! UGH!!