You're NOT going to believe TODAY'S backyard calamity! [View All]

[Redstone]

My friend LynnZ observed last night that there's never a dull moment around casa Redstone, and boy, is she right.

Just yesterday, we had The Drama And Excitement Of The Menacing And Possibly Rabid Striped Stinker: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=3825470&mesg_id=3825470

I figured after that, we'd had our ration of weirdness for at least a week, and it would be safe to take the Little guy to the library this afternoon while Mrs R. was working in the back yard, gardening and raking and so on.

But no, we didn't even get a day's worth of reprieve. When we got back, we found some of the neighbors in the yard, tending to a worse-for-the-wear Mrs R, who was blithely raking away when a goddamned tree fell on her!

I shit you not. The top fifteen feet of a 30-foot chokecherry tree just split off and BAM! whapped her upside the head (or I guess that would be downside the head, since it was falling down, not rising up).

I asked her if she had "seen stars" and when she told me she had, I immediately hauled her off the the clinic despite her strident (and somewhat annoying) protests that she was just fine, OK, ready to go in the house and make dinner, and all that. (I don't take any chances when someone might have a concussion, having dealt with four of the sons of bitches myself, which is why I can't remember anything. Really. It's NOT the drugs, it's the four concussions.)

Anyway, everything seems to be OK, though I have to keep an eye on her for a couple of days and wake her up every two hours tonight to make sure she's asleep rather than unconscious, which won't be hard to do given that I don't sleep much more than an hour at a stretch anyway. But I bet she's going to be annoyed at being awake and aware of her headache instead of asleep and not feeling it. But you do have to be vigilant with this stuff.

So, my intelligent and perceptive fellow DUers, I need your help. What the HELL do you think is going to happen next? I ask for your educated guess so we can have some kind of fighting chance to look out for the next bizarritude and get out of the way before anyone gets clobbered, bitten, lightning-struck, or God knows what.

Sheesh. Sometimes I wonder about this house (and yard)...

Redstone