Well… So much to be thankful for this last full week of summer vacation… Mainly… The GIANT limb that fell DID NOT hit the house! It did briefly close the road… but didn’t hit the house… here’s the story…
Saturday, we spent the morning and afternoon at the Bolton Fair (I’m very thankful for fair season… We love agricultural fairs). While we’re on our way home, I check my phone and see that I’ve missed a text from our across the street neighbor (and babysitter) who I rarley get texts from… It says “Hi Julie my dad just told me that a tree fell in your yard and knocked down the cable and power but they are fixing it right now. Just thought you would like to know!”
Wait, what?? It’s not stormy or even breezy?? AND, what tree could have possibly fallen down?? We have many huge and beautiful trees, and with one exception, they are all in great shape… It must have been the hollow one in the front yard, it’s close to the power lines, it’s not huge, and it’s hollow…
Nope… It’s a huge arm of our wonderful Silver Maple… the arm is as big around as the tree that we thought it might have been… It completely covered the road, but our neighbor (the dad of the babysitter) pulled out his chainsaw and helped get it off the road before we could get home… We called our trusty tree guy… Collings Tree Service, in Wilmington MA… Walter is a stand-up guy, and will tell you straight… I was really concerned about the other arm where the split was because that piece hangs over the house… He said that the whole tree didn’t need to come down (yeah!) and the other arm would be OK until he could get his crane guy here… He came Sunday morning and cleaned up all the debris from the first part, and then the crane guy came today… Man… We went out, but Mike was here and said it was amazing to see that crane in action!!
Here’s pics of our tree saga… Here you can see the trunk of our wonderful 100+ year old tree and the giant piece that fell off laying in front…
Here’s where that huge arm used to be… Notice the broken back piece that’s leaning directly over the house, and the same size as the piece that fell…
Here’s a view of the part where it broke off… Notice all the construction “stuff” in the background… I’d like to formally lodge a complaint against the construction people for causing my beautiful tree to fall apart… The house literally shakes all day with the construction “stuff” going by constantly…
Here’s a quick phone pic of the view of the tree this morning from the front stairs before we left to visit friends…
And here’s the same view after… notice the huge arm missing on the right side… They did a beautiful job, you’d never know that they were even out there… didn’t leave any sawdust even… but there hasn’t been sun on the front side of the house in 80 years… It looks so bare out there, and we love our trees and shade…
Even though we lost lots of shade, no one got hurt, and the tree is all fixed up… Happy Thursday!!!
