What a Crazy Night

The whole day yesterday, in fact, was totally crazy. First we had severe thunder storms all over the place morning, noon and, especially last night. While the night storms were going full blast, we had another drama playing out. You may have seen on TV the news of the hostage situation in South Windsor. That was going on two streets south of where I live. I did hear the explosions but was unable to see the fire. I am surrounded by so many trees I couldn’t see anything…not even a glow in the sky. Then…

I heard what sounded like someone running into the side of my house. You know, like a human person...body. At the same time I heard a car take off from the stop sign squealing the tires. Now I’m sure that what I heard was a body being dumped (thrown?) up against my house gangland style (I watch way too many CSI programs!). There is nothing in the world that will make me go out there to look. Thought about calling the police, but they were all busy you-know-where.

You’ll have to go online to see the hostage video and story, but you can see what did fall on my house during the storm. It was a relief to see it was only that huge limb and didn’t do any damage to the house. It did squash a bed of peonies, but they will survive. My peonies don’t bloom anymore because they don’t get enough sun. I’m having all of them dug up and I’m giving them away. Sorry, they are all spoken for.

Fallen limb. No, it is not holding up the house! ☺

Fallen Limb. This is where it stopped.

That is where the limb fell from. That’s pretty high up. It was already hanging from a previous storm, and I was going to ask Paul and Andy to get it down this coming Saturday. Now Andy will have to come over tonight with the chain saw. At least no one got hurt and it looks like it didn’t damage the house any.

New Perch. This fell during one of the storms...landed broken end first and stood up like it was planted. The birds love having a new perch. Look at the clothes line between the feeder and the tree. See how it's twisted? (click on picture to enlarge) That tells me the raccoons came last night and sat up there trying to figure out how to get down that skinny rope in order to dismantle the feeder. Since I moved the feeder away from the tree, I haven't had any more raccoon problems. (I hope I didn't speak too soon)

Sad Peony: This is the only peony that bloomed this year. It must have leaned over enough to get some sun.

Time Schedule Changes

I was feeling so stressed by my original time line goals. I have moved the tag sale to the end of August and the For Sale sign going up September 1st. That gives me more time to get things done.

So far half the upstairs is "done". That leaves the kitchen, dining room and living room. The kitchen will be hard because there is so much that needs to be decided on...does it stay or go to the tag sale. Of course there will be stuff to toss.

Currently the dining room is filled with the tag sale items. There's no room in the garage and I absolutely refuse to leave Hissy outside until it's absolutely necessary! For those of you who don't know, Hissy is my Honda Fit Sport. I LOVE THAT CAR! She's my Hissy Fit!