At least I got to entertain coworkers this morning with a description of how I made an emergency fix of the window last night.
I had a thick piece of cardboard, but I thought I would wrap it in heavy plastic first because it was still raining. I never trust my tape measuring abilities, so I was holding the plastic up in the general direction of the window, at least a foot away, to make sure it was the right size. The wind grabbed the plastic and pulled me and the plastic forward. I was parasailing out my window until I managed to haul the stuff back in and said screw it, I’m going with cardboard!
(On the more embarrassing front, I called my contractor this morning to see if he could send someone to put some plywood on the window until it could be fixed. We got into a friendly chat and he said that his wife left him. I started bawling. Then I told him about Steve and he started bawling. What a pair.
It was awful, and yet now, a few hours later, it’s kind of hilarious.)
Well, none of the huge trees in our central Indiana yard came down, as I had feared. Of course that’s because I stayed awake all night, listening to the wind. Y’see, then I’m ready to jump out of bed, gather my husband and one-year-old, and get us to safety in the event one of the trees started to fall on our house. :rolleyes: I wish I could just sleep through it like everyone else in the house, but I remain firmly convinced it’s my stoic guard that keeps us safe from house-eating trees.
This is the view outside my home office window. That tree is very near the property line between myself and my neighbor, but it’s fully in my yard. The branches go over both properties though.
Now, you can’t really tell from that pic, but this fucker is dead from the neck up. When the leaves sprout, they go about a quarter of the way up, and stop. Nothing living there.
That, combined with these hellacious winds, makes for a very bad combo. Here, let me step out onto the roof and get a better pic.
See it? Let me zoom that in for you. Sure hope that stays up there until the weekend when I can get a rope up there.
Sometimes it feels that way in the winter. These are some pictures of the last time that some of our treescame down on our property and took out my new greenhouse.
