I am so tired today. It has taken me five days of solid work to remove all the debris caused by the tree limb that fell on our house last Saturday. Mike can’t help me, so it fell on me (no pun intended) to make arrangements to get the firewood hauled off (donated to a local logger who gives firewood away to needy families) and then move all the limbs and wood left behind. I am so tired I can hardly move, but as I worked, I thanked God that we were saved further damage. Were it not for the arc in our roof, we would have lost our fence, well house, and part of the cat enclosure. As the roofer said when he came to remove the tree: “It couldn’t have come down more gently then if God had laid it down with His hands.”

But I am so sad because it appears the tree is now problematic and will need to be removed. Not only is the cost prohibitively expensive, but it is a centuries old Fir tree home to a lot of wild critters. It is about 90 feet high. 🙁