If a tree falls in the woods will it wake me up?

Or how about in the city?

Well, apparently the answer is no. It's not as if a "tree" actually fell last night, but I woke up this morning to an horrific thunderstorm, only to find that two HUGE limbs fell off my silver maple trees. Yes, these limbs fell off and landed partially in my fenced in area of my yard, partially on my fence, and partially on the sidewalk. Combined with a veritable assortment of branches, twigs, and leaves, it's left my yard a mess.....again. I can hardly wait to see if my neighbor across the street from me will pile the brush from my trees in his yard onto the terrace of my yard as he's been known to do.

At first glance it looks like only one of my pickets on the fence suffered injury, but it will be interesting to see if there's more. Gee, I can hardly wait. I am thankful, however, that I wasn't standing underneath it like my good friend (and woodland nymph) Donna. I would most certainly have been injured.

My dogs were VERY unsure about this new "thing" in their playpen/bathroom. In fact, they wanted nothing to do with them. Lucky for me, since I really don't need a greyhound to be loosed from a faulty picket. THAT, my friends, would be a very dangerous situation. After all, they're sneaky.

So I'm about to brave the humidity, and see what I can do to clean my yard up a bit. What a way to spend an afternoon off!

Yet, the damn dead vertical log of a pine tree in my neighbor's yard is still precariously erect. Now why couldn't THAT have fallen? Then again, I'm glad it didn't since it's extremely close to the power line to my house, and God KNOWS when Alliant would ever get around to fixing it.....

UGH!