Cheap

About a week ago, I was in the front yard and I heard a crazy sound coming from the backyard. It was a bit windy that day and the sound was like walking up creaky stairs in an old fixer upper. I walked in the back yard to check it out and much to my surprise it was a slightly leaning tree making that horrific noise. It was so loud and had a huge crack in it that I knew with the next rain(ha ha good one, it never rains here) that tree was coming down right on the coop fence. Ugh. I called the tree surgeon and unfortunately they like to charge a specialist kind of copay if you know what I am saying. 

Excuse the wobbly footage, I tried to be fancy and tilt and well, the iPhone doesn't tilt. 

So, we procrastinated on actually having it removed last week.  Ok, Ok, we were cheap and didn't want to spend the money. Remember, we are saving up for something big in October (more on that later) and wouldn't you know, yesterday it rained hard in this overheated drought-ridden city. 

I wasn't home when it fell, I was actually at therapy discussing much smaller problems. Had I known this disaster was brewing in my backyard, I may have spent that hour bitching about this tree and how much I hate it. When I left therapy, I knew it had fallen. I think even during the session I said "this rain is giving me anxiety, I have a creaky tree." I should have been a psychic. I got home, slowly peered in the back and wham....... in my face.....Son of a cheap ass. 

Hackberry Horror

Something or Someone must have been looking out for us. Seriously, this tree could not have landed in a more perfect spot. It grazed the the coop and missed the fence by less than a tenth of an inch. Lessoned learned Mr. Hackberry, lesson learned.