The Crane, my Afternoon Entertainment

 

Thursday, mid-afternoon, propped on pillows and reading a great book, I heard BOOM and the ground shook. I flew down the hall and to the kitchen door and as I shouted 

"Bob come look what's in the yard,"

 I grabbed my cell, and well, YOU know what I did. 

I was shouting in spurts like an announcer on a football game.

"Look, it's a crane!"

"They're taking the tree off the roof of the 2-story house, it's been 31 days."

"It's tall, it's taller by 4 stories than the 2-story house."

"It' moving, it's Movin, OMG the wind is gusting 30 MPH, if it falls this way it will crush our house."

(BOB COMES OUTSIDE and walks closer to the fence; I back up with my back to the door and shout as I back in the door, "Come In The House"still madly snapping while yapping)

"ARE YOU CRAZY? get back in the house!"

(I drag him in the house, and he calmly resumes watching the TV

I stand giving a blow-by-blow description,)

"Look Come Look, it just lifted the WHOLE Tree into the air, its swinging, that weighs a ton, its going to turn over on our house."

"LOOK! LOOK! it has a counterbalance ball on the other end, its huge and swinging wildly, so is the tree. IT'S THE WHOLE TREE!"

"Did you hear that THUMP, they swung it OVER THE ROOF OF THE HOUSE and dropped it in the front yard."

"Bob, YOU GOTTA COME SEE THIS. there is a MAN with a chain saw RIDING ON THE BOTTOM of the chain the tree was in, HE"S STANDING IN THE CHAIN, He's swinging back and forth

They are lowering him into the top of the TREEEEE

OMG!"

 oh, hey, Bloggers, I forgot you were there, Can You SEE him?? See the crazy man that rides on a chain hanging from a 7-story crane? 

He rode down into the tree, chainsaw buzzed, and suddenly he was gone and half a tree arose and swung over and was dropped, then it went back, and I heard lots of noise and  

Lo and Behold a GIANT Stump flew across and was dumped.

This was the most

excitement since the bobcat in our back yard.

While the cell phone was hot off the press, um, photo shoot, I snapped these 3 below to show you how the other end of our yard looks, the opposite view of the Hopeful Stump Left by The Bob Cat

When all of this was over, I was sad that the landscape view or our sliding glass doors, has changed forever, make that the rest of our lives.

 I was sad, when Bob said I did not know the tree fell, when did it fall, was it on the house?

I said Milton dumped it on the two-story house, on the 9th of Oct. and he said I did not know that.

We talk about it every time we eat because the tree leaning on the roof was there for weeks and we can see it from the breakfast bar.

Dementia, I hate you!