The Sky Is Falling!

Dave, Kate & Connor came over this afternoon for a nice visit. Garrett & Connor had a blast playing with each other and I put Dave to work setting up the playset in the backyard. Everyone was having a grand old time until the attack of the tree.

Our stupid neighbours (as opposed to the not-stupid ones on the other side) decided that today would be a grand old time to start hacking off limbs on the tree that mostly overhangs our backyard and provides most of our shade. And they decided to do it while we had company over and two toddlers running around in the backyard, something readily apparent to anyone possessing sensory apparati operating above those of Helen Keller. Not that this seemed to matter with the doorknobs residing next to us.

Let me paint you the scene:

Dave was out in the backyard with Garrett. Dave's cooking the burgers and Garrett's on the playset. I am in the kitchen cutting cheese for the burgers and Kate, Julie and Connor are puttering about in the living room and kitchen.

I hear Dave yell, "What the heck!?", Kate gasps and Garrett gave out a yelp. I look to see a tree branch... on the top of the playset. A very LARGE branch, full of wood and everything. I saunter over to the doorway and see that Garrett is climbing down from the playset looking surprised and sort of amused but not hurt. The branch that the idiots next door were cutting fell and landed right on top of the playset, but thankfully it either missed Garrett or else the leaves and what not weren't enough to do any damage to him.

So Dave went over and tried to help push it back over the fence. He said, "Here, I'll push it over for you." They said, "Sure, if you're strong enough."

Dave didn't kill them... that's to his credit.

So the tree branch got tossed back over the fence, Garrett escaped major bodily harm and Dave and Kate got to see just how stupid and rude our neighbours are. They didn't even say, "Sorry for almost killing your kid," or anything of the sort. They just went back to whatever they were doing in their yard while we looked on incredulously and my other neighbour just shook his head knowingly.

Idiots.

Granted, these are the same people who stand around in their backyard cursing like sailors with Tourette's syndrome at each other for all the world to hear. And their house smells like a tobacco stand on fire and makes it rather annoying to have the windows open during the summer. Sigh. At least the neighbours on the other side of us are nice and geeky :)