Comments | ursulav: So I just nearly died!

ursulav

So I just nearly died!

Apr 01, 2011 21:43

And by “nearly” I mean that I was fertilizing my Carolina lupine (a lovely native plant! Recommend it highly!) and heard a splintery creaky noise and looked up and yelled an obscenity and a tree came down about three feet from where I was standing, tore through the trellis I’d put up for the climbing aster (a lovely native plant! Also recommend it ( Read more... )

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incandescens April 1 2011, 21:53:16 UTC

Good god. I'm glad you're all right.

heavenscalyx April 1 2011, 21:53:40 UTC

GAH. I'm so glad it missed! I know how I felt when I watched part of our 100+ year old maple falling slowly and inexorably toward our neighbor's house one evening, and that wasn't anywhere near ME. I suggest that Kevin might want to have a bottle of your favorite spirit near at hand this evening.

scarfman April 1 2011, 21:57:25 UTC

Missed all the plants, too.
Cuz that's what's important.

ursulav April 1 2011, 22:05:00 UTC

Well, duh!

I mean, it's not like it actually HIT me.

kriz1818 April 1 2011, 21:59:00 UTC

Glad you're not dead!

niamh_sage April 1 2011, 22:03:19 UTC

Oh good lord 0_0
What a lucky escape! Er ... you'll be checking the rest of the trees in falling distance, won't you?