Into Everyone’s Life Some Trees Must Fall

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When I first bought this house 35 years ago, there was a big tree in the middle of the back yard. My dear mother of blessed memory said, “That’s coming down.” And it did: she had it removed. That was the only tree on my property. In the 35 years that I’ve lived here I’ve had three trees decide to plop down on my yard. The most recent event happened today. I heard the fence rattle, so I checked my security camera. I saw nothing, so I assumed it was a cat jumping the fence. A few minutes later my doorbell rang. It was my next door neighbor, informing me that I had a tree down in the back yard. The photo is what happened. We weren’t having and storms, and it wasn’t windy. A friend of mine said, “It probably just passed out from the heat!” As I said, this is the third time it’s happened. As with the other two instances, it missed any “expensive repair” things as it fell, like a building (in this case, it would have been the garage). I will need to get a post and panel of my privacy fence repaired, but that’s about it…save for chopping it up, of course. Ah, Monday….