a little birdie told me so: The GIft I Wish I Could Refuse

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

The GIft I Wish I Could Refuse

Lee left me with a little reminder that a tropical depression can pack quite a punch.

It's 2 trees down, not one. I didn't know that until I was able to walk out into the yard after work last night. The one on the ground is from the neighbor's yard behind me. It probably pushed my tree over. The tree behind the bedroom is holding it up, but it is bending this way.

I talked to the tree service I used the last time a tree fell, but I'm not sure when the they can get out here. People with trees on the roof come first. I hope I don't have a tree on my roof by that time!

I've moved into Rachel's room until the leaning tree is no longer looming over the house.

6 comments:

Steve GravanoSeptember 7, 2011 at 7:34 PM
Smart of you to move your sleeping quarters.
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Lisa at GreenbowSeptember 8, 2011 at 4:31 AM
I am so glad it didn't land on your house. Be safe.
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Betsy BrockSeptember 8, 2011 at 9:56 PM
Wow! Yes, good idea to move from your bedroom! How could you sleep? ha.
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Jill from Killeny GlenSeptember 9, 2011 at 3:16 PM
Glad YOU are alright! WHOA! BIG trees! HOpe the tree service gets to you soon!
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AnonymousSeptember 11, 2011 at 7:30 AM
We lost a very large tree like that in our backyard during Hurricane Isabel in 2003 in Maryland. The ground just got so soggy it could not longer support the roots and down it came.
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ChaChaneenOctober 2, 2011 at 9:18 PM
Wow, that is one TALL tree! How scary to have it teetering on exactly the other tree. WOW
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...."We were Birds Without Wings. You were a robin and I was a blackbird. And there were some who were eagles or vultures or pretty gold finches, but none of us had wings. For birds with wings nothing changes. They fly where they will and they know nothing about borders and their quarrels are very small. But we are always confined to earth, no matter how much we climb to the high places and flap our arms. Because we cannot fly we are condemned to do things that do not agree with us. Because we have no wings we are pushed into struggles and abominations that we did not seek and then after all that, the years go by. The mountains are leveled. The valleys rise. The rivers are blocked by sand and the cliffs fall into the sea." -Louis De Berniere

Who Said It First?

The phrase "little birdie told me so" may find it's origins in this Bible verse. "Do not revile the king even in your thoughts, or curse the rich in your bedroom, because a bird of the air may carry your words, and a bird on the wing may report what you say" (Ecclesiastes 10:20). The earliest form of the saying was included in John Heywood's collection of proverbs (1546). In 1583, Brian Melbancke wrote in 'Philotimus'" 'I had a little bird, that brought me newes of it.' In 1711, in 'Letter to Stella,' Jonathan Swift came close to the current version: 'I heard a little bird say so.'