Augustus Addendum

How could I have forgotten the tree-falling drama we had last week that I was going to write about yesterday?!  I'm going to blame it on the pain medication I had to take last night for the tooth pain - you know the pain is bad if I have to take something for it!

Last year, we paid to have a chain-link fence put up on either side of the back yard.  We have a wooden fence at the back and front of the yard, but there was a wire fence on either side that was getting more flimsy by the year, especially in one section where Beau had been jumping on the fence for years, barking at cats in the yard next door.  He would push it down a bit more each time, and when we got Rusty, the bratty pup took great joy in jumping over the fence at that section and romping around beyond our yard.

About three weeks after the fence was erected, a tree fell on one section of it.  It was like the tree had been waiting until there was a new, shiny fence nearby before taking its swan dive.  The people I called to remove the fallen tree and check the other trees in case more were about to fall pushed the chain link fence back up but the rod at the top was bent and has been an eyesore for the last year.

Last Tuesday afternoon, the doggies and I heard a Very Loud Noise. We went out to the back yard to investigate and found that a tree from the back yard next door had come crashing down, yes, again on part of the chain link fence.  It was such a big, heavy tree that the portion of the fence it crashed on went right down to the ground.  Rusty could have jumped on the tree trunk and trotted off into the yard next door but surprisingly, he didn't!  The pup is growing up.

I called "our tree guy" and he came over that evening itself to look at the damage and give me a quote for removing the tree.  I asked him if his guys could fix the fence and he said yes!  He said they'd come to do the work the very next morning (I was working in the office that day so I left the gate to the back yard unlocked).  When I got home that afternoon, the fallen tree was gone and the fence had been repaired!  Both the newly damaged section and the portion that had been damaged last year were restored.  I'm so glad we've found someone who can do removal repair work like that, but I hope that's the last of the tree-falling for a while.