I am late today! I had Eta Storm Am and PM, two posts set to go for today and Sunday.
But then yesterday a miracle happened, make that 2 miracles and I pulled them to do this post.
Tuesday Nov, 10, The day before Eta, the TS/Hurricane/TS came to visit, on the 11th, our work of art, the dead grapefruit tree, fell over. the wind was just to much for it.
Good news was it was dead and needed to come down.
Bad news is, I knew Bob would be out there the next day with a CHAIN SAW.
I spent a lot of time catastrophizing over the chain saw, in fact the whole day it rained and blew, I thought about that chain saw.
Friday the 13th, we walked Beau, at at 7 am, Bob and the electric chain saw went out to cup up the tree.
Leaving me in the house, because I bent over in the kitchen and my trick back went out.
All I could do was hobble to the rocker with my laptop, that way I could hear and see the chainsaw wielding 84 year old, and call 911 if necessary.
Not only was I fretting over cut off legs and arms, but the chance of sawing through the electric cord and being electrocuted was in the front of my mind.
I planned on runnng with cell in hand talking to 911 and jerking the plug out of the wall as I ran, or grabbing a towel to use as a tourniquet, then i remembered they say that is not good now and I was trying to remember what to do.
any whoooo
A minor miracle occurred, after about 30 minutes, my back quit hurting.
I went out to drag what he cut off to the piles. Bend and stoop, owie! Bend and stoop, owie!
All photos were taken After the major miracle, when we were done with it all.....after the fact!
As he sawed and sawed, and I dragged and piled, I eyed the trunk of the tree, I was about 26 inches around and had a stump I knew we could not cut up or move.
the piles grew.
the logs got bigger and heavier, I could not lift them, so he sawed and moved the pieces.
My catastrophizer was at Warp Speed.
Suddenly a pickup truck pulled in the driver way and a handsome knight young man, got out and said I can get the rest of that for you. I said how much will you charge us?
He said with a big smile, NOTHING, I just stopped to help, as he pulled out his chain saw!
He said, I can finish that up for you in five minutes and cranked up his saw.
I got tears in my eyes and wandered out of the way of the flying sawdust, and noticed the sign on the side of his truck. It said Freebird Solutions, we do anything.
listed was Chimney sweep, painting, tree removals, replacing windows and doors. and much more, in other words HANDY MAN.
He saw and threw giant logs on this pile
and yanked that big stump up and out and flung it on the pile
NO, he did not cut off my foot, that is for perspective on size of trunk, all the grass you see was attached to said stump!
While watching this young kind miracle worker, I planned what I would say when the noise stopped.
You see, hubby has the heart and mind of a 40 year old, but the body of an 84 year old who had a stroke. I have been after him for a year to let me call for an estimate on a few things needed to be done. he refused loudly. something about not paying anyone to do what he can do himself, except nothing is getting done.
All of that is why I call this a miracle.. I said to Jason, do you pressure wash? paint houses? get palm trees off a fence?
YES! oh YES! he gave a few guesstimates to get my brain started and said where is the palm on the fence.
We raced off to the back yard, before bob could stop me, and he said, Oh yes, I can do that for you, 150 to remove the palm, it is huge by the way, about 25 feet tall, the backyard neighbors tree.
The thing is, the fence was propped up since Irma took it down in 2017. waiting for two sections of fence that we have had leaning on the side of the house for 3 years, waiting to be put up.
He said I will go to their house and ask permission to go through their yard. I said how about if you took down the old fence, moved the tree and put up two sections of the fence.
I kid you not, I have had many sleepless nights fretting over that fence, the famous one where the Big Beautiful Beau did his Houdini escape through the hole.
I know this is long but I must tell the story. Jason will be doing that job soon. He said get the list of handy stuff ready and he will give me an estimate.
Bob said nothing. but he did wake up this morning and the first thing out of his mouth, Is I don't trust him, he is to nice, no one is that nice, I would not do that job for that money.
OMG! I said, God sends us a miracle worker and you question it because he is TOO NICE?
then he said is he going to charge the neighbor for removing their tree off our fence?
YOU do NOT want to know the rest of the conversation..
this is the tree waiting for pickup. Usually they pick up things like this with a huge claw truck, on Tuesdays.
At 3 PM on Friday the 13th, the 3rd miracle happened.
I heard a lot of noise, it kept on making noise, I put my book down and there it was.
The Claw Truck, and within 15 minutes the tree was gone as though it were never there.
I took 12 avocados out and gave to the driver.
I do believe this was all meant to be.\
I went out, you do now want to know how bad I looked, we both looked like Old People Struggling, and God sent a man who cared enough to help, and the claw came right behind him.
Hopefully the fence will be the 4th miracle with may a house being painted in the near future.
