Comments | hollsterhambone: A letter to my realtor (at 5:45 A.M.)

hollsterhambone

A letter to my realtor (at 5:45 A.M.)

Jan 04, 2007 03:55

[Edit: Just to clarify, this happened to the rental house, not the house we're purchasing, but the rental house our realtor found us, nonetheless.You're never going to believe this. About fifteen minutes ago Simon and I awoke to what we both believed was a simultaneous dream of a sonic boom. We thought that was a bit uncanny, so we ventured out ( Read more... )

jacksonville, homeimprovement, pictures, destruction, tired, domesticity, confusion

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nathangphd January 4 2007, 15:40:40 UTC

Ugh. Been there, done that, about two years ago when one of our two 90-foot oak trees decided to take a nosedive in to our (former, dilapidated) garage. Paul saw it tip over and watched as it crashed to the ground, missing the house by about 3 feet.

It looks from the pics like y'all didn't lose anything, which is good. Sucks for your landlord, tho.

hollsterhambone January 4 2007, 15:53:17 UTC

90 FEET? Good God. I'm glad THAT missed the house! Nope, we didn't lose anything, which is GREAT, although I think my hammock has bad kharma. About four years ago during a bad monsoon storm in Tucson (yes, any sentence that begins that way is bound to have a ridiculous ending) we had one come crashing down on the fence and the poor hammock! I swear that hammock has a tree fetish.

HAMMOCK: "C'mon, let me see your roots."
TREE: *THUMP*
HAMMOCK: "Ohhhhhhhh, yeah, baby!"

nathangphd January 4 2007, 18:24:19 UTC

*feels for your bad-kharma-afflicted hammock*

Our conversation the morning the tree came a-tumbling was a masterpiece of Beckettian dialogue:

ME (in bathroom, primping, getting ready for work. Hears a loud WHOOOOOOOOOOSH and continues primping as the lights go out): What was that?

PAUL (standing in front of our den window, calmly): The tree just fell.

ME (nonplussed): What?

PAUL (still calm): The tree just fell.

ME (walks to den, looks out den window at toppled tree with 6-foot-diameter trunk sticking up out of the ground. Raises eyebrow): Ah. So it did. (returns to bathroom to continue primping.)

I think both of us were so shocked, then relieved, that the tree missed the house by mere feet, that we acted as though it was no big deal. :D

hollsterhambone January 5 2007, 04:56:36 UTC

I love the nonchalance. It's a movie!

fermi_daza January 5 2007, 03:57:58 UTC

WHAT THE....????!!!?!?!

Dude.

hollsterhambone January 5 2007, 04:55:45 UTC

I KNOW! There's a girl at Simon's new lab that's convinced she needs to sage our new place before we move in. I'm totally going to let her do it. Gotta get this current rental out from under my skin!