Oh. My. Gosh. So. Get home just before 9:00. Hubs goes to take care of chickens I go to take out trash and let peach out. He comes back up to the garage...”uh, we have a problem”
My worst fears of something getting into the coop fly into my head. Nope. The girls and Bucky are fine. A tree fell. I still panic cause is the neighbor’s side of the fence still intact (this is the neighbor with nine dogs remember)
Luckily that part of the fence is still good. Some of our upper extension fence is a little bent, but that’s okay. But...the fence on our property side...destroyed. We’ll need new panels and t posts. Luckily cheap but...
So hubs and I were out til recently with the chainsaw and hauling stuff into piles. The girls will have to be locked up tomorrow though. They’re not going to like that...
Meanwhile our neighbors on the other side came over to offer assistance near the end. They said they heard a loud noise around 7 or 8 but thought we were home - and heard us out cutting and saw all the lights on so came to investigate. They’re good neighbors. The neighbors who’s tree it is, however. They knew we were out there working. No “everything ok?” No checking THEIR FENCELINE or anything. One of their dogs was barking at us so they called it in, a minute later was out barking again. Insert eye roll emoticon here. Next time I see them I will be asking them for homeowners insurance info. If they don’t play nice, however, I will fully go the legal route and see them in court. Their last offer of tending the trees was “we’ll pay half the rental” if we wanted to rent the equipment and do it all ourselves. Uh. Your trees. Not our duty. So I may call their insurance say look. This is what happened. There’s other branches in perilous places that if they go down they will go down on a chicken coop. They dont want to hire someone so here’s your option to mitigate. Or else you will be hearing from me again and it will cost considerably more than hiring a service now. Also the falling branch took out some of our young eucalyptus trees...so. Yeah.
Hubs has to air drop me some pics and I’ll post but the important thing is no one was hurt, chickens are fine and the coop proper and bachelor pad are still ok.
May my coffee be strong tomorrow.