Well, the weatherman says it is supposed to keep raining until the cows come home, course the cows have long since been washed away by all the rain.
Just kidding, sort of.
The weather forecast says that the rain is supposed to keep up until about next Friday.
Work has kept me busy most of this week and with Jeremy here I haven't really bothered to boot up my home PC much.
So we had a little bit of a surprise waiting for us when we got home. Gina and I didn't notice the surprise when we first got home, of course it was sort of dark by then. I wish I had gotten some pictures of the gigantic tree limb that had broken off before Jeremy started cutting it into more manageable pieces.
The neighbors tree that shades a good part of the front yard has had problems before where limbs have snapped off during storms. This one didn't fall to the ground or hit any houses, rather it hit another limb and was just teetering there. However, the limb it was teetering (and part of it still is) on is near the porch.
And I am sure that if Jeremy hadn't cut part of it off when he did, a good gust of wind would have probably dislodged it and allowed it to slide down the limb it is resting on and into the side of porch, causing some damage.
So after work on Wednesday we hit the Home Depot and bought one of those chainsaws on a pole. They really, really should check ID or give you a 10 minute training course with a pass-fail test before letting you guy such a thing.
I bought the electric one, because for those that don't know me, I don't like keeping gasoline around. I mean we did this up north kept the gas can for the lawnmower underneath this little crawl space in the back of the house. But it was Michigan, a 90 degree day is newsworthy up there.
Down here in TX during the summer you can easily have 100+ degree days for several days straight during the summer (not so far this summer mind you), so the idea of keeping a highly flammable substance in my garage or my shed, where the temperatures can get outrageously hot makes me not want to tempt fate.
So I opt for electric stuff, electric lawnmower, electric chainsaws, etc.
Anyway, so this thing is an 8" electric chainsaw on a pole that telescopes out to around 12 feet or so. Yeah this thing is dangerous, but cool.
Jeremy cut two LARGE pieces off of the limb and I dragged them towards the front of the lawn.
After we get the last piece out of the tree we will have to cut up the LARGE pieces into smaller pieces and bundle them for removal. That should be fun as I have had to cut up and bundle smaller amounts of tree branch than that and those times I spent at least a good 1/2 day.
Oh well, I will get some pics of everything when we get home.
Hopefully, it hasn't started raining again by then.
The weather here this summer has been CRAZY.
We get rain in the morning, then for a few hours it stops and if we are lucky the sun comes out, then it starts raining again in the evening and usually rains some more at night.
Don't get me wrong, I love that we aren't in a drought. But WTF, is Texas turning into a tropical climate?
Time to hit the road and head home.
Laterz
