A big oak tree next door came down yesterday. I did have an inkling that this would happen as our (new-ish) neighbors had mentioned this briefly to me – though they mention lots of things to me and many times it doesn’t happen. I remember when Mike and Alice (the previous neighbors) decided to take down four trees about a decade ago because the trees were literally hunched over the house and impaling the roof with dropped branches. There was this last tree which was outside/inside the deciding circumference. Alice wanted it down because it shaded the back porch and made the house dark, but Mike wanted to keep it up as it was an oak and not a tulip poplar. So it got to live out its life for another 10 years. So it went down yesterday in 100 degree weather in a plume of sawdust, gas-fumed chipper and sweaty hard working arbor crew. Yes, I’m sad. But our neighborhood is slowly turning from a deeply wooded neighborhood, to a less wooded neighborhood as both trees and tiny run down houses come down for new-build construction. Though I mostly love the trees, I also am terrified with the stronger summer storms that one will fall right on the house and squish us all.
It was a semi-rough day for Kimchi as she ate something that didn’t agree with her and so there was both diarrhea and puke. None of the poop was in the house (good girl!), but she is the quietest vomitter – no sound at all! So I’d find random piles of puke all over the house. She wouldn’t eat breakfast which worried me because…she’s not my dog – but by midday, she did drink water and by evening, she did eventually eat her dinner. She kept us up on Tuesday night (in retrospect because her tummy was upset, but we didn’t know that) and has a strong desire to sleep in the bed. So Jeremy and Elka decamped to the guest bedroom so they could sleep more soundly. Kimchi was not happy with that situation for at least 20 minutes.
