Wild Wind and Missing Heads

Melissa’s attempts to clear the front yard came true. While I was home 2 weeks ago on a flex day, the man from the City came and talked to Steve about moving the art in the front yard. On the Tuesday, they came out and off went the pieces. They even took a huge steel storage vault that has been sitting in the yard since the summer of the carved head. We still have a few rocks that need to be moved but they will be a bit easier to locate.

Tuesday night there was a huge wind storm. I was watching our Russian Olive tree blowing in the wind. A few seconds later I heard a loud cracking sound and realized the tree was no longer there.

This past summer, we realized that a large part of the top was not looking healthy. James and I had cut a fair amount off but we thought a part of it might grow back next year. Now it won’t!

It was too late to really see anything and I figured there was nothing I could do anyway. I decided to simply wait to the next day to see the damage. Fortunately the tree fell primarily between the van and the car so there was no damage to either. We were also lucky it didn’t hit the windows on the house or it might have been quite costly.

Our formerly 20 foot tall tree is now about 8 feet tall. Steve says that because the head was protecting the house and is now gone, we lost the tree.

We did lose some shingles on the roof in the wind but when we called out a roofer, he said we can replace just a few shingles so it will cost us less than $150. It’s nice that is it a fairly cheap fix.