a story of the scary persuasion

Happy Halloween, Punkin!

Happy Halloween, all!  I have had a total of about 10 trick-or-treaters so far.  All less than 3 feet tall and quite scrumtious.

Now, for a scary story...

My parents came down on Sunday to celebrate my birthday with me.  I had told my dad all I wanted for my birthday was for him to come with his chainsaw to take care of some wayward limbs that were threatening to fall on my car this winter (I'm very gun shy of my tree since I had two separate limb falling incidents over the summer- there's no telling what it would do with the weight of the snow!)  Somehow they safely made it in the ridiculous nor'easter of a windstorm that was this past weekend in New England.  So, he did as I requested- took them off, trimmed them down and my mom and I hauled off the scraps to their van and to my wood pile while he installed my new outside lights (okay, so there were TWO things I wanted for my birthday...)  We finished all of that, he put the chainsaw away and we came inside to eat lunch.

We were sitting in the living room chatting while the lasagna finished baking and all of a sudden there was the loudest bang in the whole name of bangs.  Pictures came flying off the wall and we sat there stunned, staring at each other.  I thought it sounded like thunder, but the pictures fell, so maybe it was an earthquake?  My dad got up and looked out the window to see that one of my giant pine trees had fall INTO MY HOUSE!! 

We raced outside to see:

this...

...and this...

...and this!

Why do my trees keep falling??? 

Luckily this story has a happy ending.  Because not only did the tree hit my house without remotely hurting a thing, my dad was here with his chainsaw to immediately take care of it...AND this week is yard waste pick-up!!!  So, I've got a huge pile of pine limbs sitting out by the road waiting patiently for the removal mice to take it all away.  If it had to happen, it couldn't have happened more perfectly, in my opinion.

The end.

(Notice, how as soon as he cut off the stump the groun immediately slapped back down into place?  Earth is crazy stuff!)