Happy Hump Day!
It’s a bright sunshiny 64 degrees outside.
I slept in a little this morning, then got the brats off to daycare. I hope they get worn out tired, Ripple was a bit of a brat last night.
We had been going over to a friend’s a few afternoons a week for a playdate with Buttercup, the goldendoodle. However, Buttercup just got a new sister (Ruby), a rescued breeder from a puppy mill, and Ruby needs some time to settle in. Up until recently, she has never even been in a house, and she is afraid of everything. Once she gets settled in and settles down, we’ll start going back over for play dates.
Just got off the phone with the insurance company. What a mess!
Although Dicey, I think what you had is way worse!
My truck has damage too that has to be repaired. The lawn guy saw it, and now that the rain has stopped and the sun is shining, the dent in my truck is very visible. I think the branch must have hit my truck, then bounced, because the dent is about two feet from where the branch was.
Branches are still falling out of my tree, more on the ground today. The lawn guy is coming out this afternoon to clean up the mess and he will have to get up there to knock more down.
It’s kind of dangerous to have those broken branches hanging up there waiting to fall.
I may get the tree cut down. A lot of the top is gone.
Yesterday when I called to make a claim, I was told my insurance would cover my neighbor’s car. Today I found out it doesn’t. I thought it wouldn’t*. However, my insurance will cover his deductible up to $1000. I also found out I don’t have rental car coverage, and I have no idea how long my truck will be in the shop. They want me to take it to a place in Frederick, and I hate Frederick. However, the same dealership has a shop up here, so I’m hoping I can have it done close to home.
I wonder if I can rent a car? My license expired last year and when I wanted to rent a truck to haul the stone for out front I couldn’t because my license was expired. I have an appointment to get it renewed on the 30th.
Oh well, I have enough other shit to worry about today.
I don’t even know when I’ll get an appointment to get it looked at.
Seems we are deemed a catastrophic area, lots of damage and some people still don’t have power. The dent in my truck is a low priority.
And speaking of trees.
A little back story that some of you will know.
I live in a duplex. There was one fence around my and my neighbor’s yard, so my dogs had run of both of our yards. In exchange for the run of the yard, we took care of her side of the yard. My neighbor had trees growing through the fence on her side, causing damage to the fence. My dogs found a hole and got into the next yard up - in 2019. My son and I fixed the hole, but last year, in 2020, the next neighbor up was giving me shit about my dogs getting into her yard. I asked her when, and she told me not to be stupid, that I knew when… she was talking about 2019. My dogs had not gotten out for over a year and she was still giving me shit about it. She was also angry about the damage to the fence (not her fence), about the trees, about all the stuff on my neighbor’s back porch.
I would have been happy to cut down the trees growing through the fence, except for the electric wires running through them. I wish I had cut them down when they were saplings, but they were in my neighbor’s yard and I didn’t know how she would feel about it. That said, I wasn’t about to pay to have the trees cut down as it isn’t my yard.
So, I put up a fence. Now my dogs are contained.
I’m done with it.
Well, that didn’t make the neighbor two doors up happy, because the fence is still damaged and she is afraid her dog will get out into my neighbor’s yard. Her dog is old and fat, so not very likely. So, she bitched a fit and my neighbor got people in to cut all the trees down, even though she is not the one with a dog. And I agree with her, if the neighbor two doors up is worried about her dog getting out, then let her put in a new fence, my neighbor doesn’t care if she has a fence or not.
However, the one tree my neighbor didn’t get cut down is the one at the very back. Huge maple like mine, both are probably over 100 years old. That tree worries me because it has one very long branch that hangs out over the parking pad to the telephone pole. Whenever we have a heavy rain, it leans on the wires and pulls then down. I told her about it one day, but by the time she got out there, the leaves had dried a bit and it wasn’t so bad.
The next day, we had another heavy rain and the tree had pulled the wires down so far that they were laying on my neighbor’s fence. I think the fence is the only thing keeping them off the ground.
I called the electric company and they came out and got the wires back up where they belong.
I have no idea why the tree cutters couldn’t have just cut that branch while they were. there.
No more worries though, I came out this morning and the branch is in pieces on the ground.
I’ll see if the lawn guy will take it when he cleans up all the other mess.
First, he quoted me $150 to clean up the mess. Then he said, well maybe $175. Then he looked some more and said $200. I was expecting $500-$600, so even if he goes up to $300, I’ll be happy and it is well worth it to me. The pile of branches is higher than my head.
Congrats MG
Have fun at the zoo FCM. It’s a good day to be outside doing things. Not too hot or cold.
Unfortunately, it does happen Talky. I cringe whenever I hear my mother’s voice coming out of my mouth. Even my handwriting is starting to look like hers. Double cringe, because I used to get compliments on my handwriting.
Happy vacationing MetalMouse, and you can read at home!
Alive is always good Shady, although there are days when I wish I could take just a little break from living. Don’t want to die, just want to hit the pause button to catch my breath.
*Years ago, when I was living in Baltimore, my tree knocked the neighbor’s antenna off their roof during a storm. Back in the days before cable. They wanted me to replace it. My insurance company said not my responsibility and their insurance should cover it. Well, my neighbors didn’t have homeowners’ insurance, since the house was paid for and they weren’t required to have it, they dropped it to save money. They were furious with me because I wouldn’t pay for it, and they had just bought an expensive TV they couldn’t watch because they had no antenna. So… you have money for an expensive TV and antenna, but no money for insurance?
And somehow, this is my problem?
I was early 20’s, had just bought a house, and was out on my own. I was on a strict budget in which buying a Happy Meal was considered a splurge.
We never spoke to each other again.
While an omnivore, I found myself cheering the lone cow not yet caught with a rousing “Go Bossie go!” 
Nelson did what he usually does when seeing animals move on TV: bark. 
Mrs. L.A. got crab rangoon.
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