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Boulder of Ice
You will not believe what happened on Saturday. I let my dogs outside around 4:30 p.m. and when I looked into the backyard there was a HUGE hole in our cedar fence!! We live in a subdivision, however we are the first house and the yard faces a very busy street, my heart just sank because it would have been devastating if my dogs had found their way out of the yard and onto the street.
The fence looked like it had been kicked in from the outside, but with the snow we’d see footprints if that was the case. There was a big boulder of ice (like 2′ long and 40 lbs. heavy boulder of ice) right inside the fence — it took us a while to piece it together that the snowplow had passed the house and in doing so shot the ice right through the fence. I figured we had nothing to lose, so this morning I left a voicemail with the person in charge of the snowplowing with my village. I got a voicemail this afternoon saying that he came out, looked at the fence, and would have it repaired this spring. In the meantime, my husband covered the hole with three 6″ wide planks of wood. That’s how big that hole is!!!
Oh, and on Sunday night my windshield on my car cracked clear across from one side to the other. My week hasn’t been going well.
Today my husband, Zoe and my brother-in-law all went to the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. It was a great time to go, not crowded at all. I’ve never been to a planetarium before, and quite honestly, don’t really know all that much about science and space. We saw a show on black holes, and a different show on the stars in the night sky above Chicago. Thank God the guy doing the presentation admit that he didn’t see the Little Bear, or Ursa Minor either, because I seriously thought I was the only one. I can see the Big Dipper just fine, but that’s about it. Everything else is just blinky lights in the sky.
My brother-in-law was introduced to the game of “Would You Rather” where you get to pose two choices and the person you are playing with has to choose which one they’d rather do. Everything is fair game with Zoe and she came up with the mother of all questions on the ride home. Would you rather sky dive while jumping on a trampoline? – or something else, which I can’t remember right now, but it’s not important because my brother-in-law was trying to tell her that she couldn’t ask that question because it was impossible to do. That doesn’t matter to her in the land of Would You Rather, because she usually asks the most obscure questions you could possibly imagine, and they usually have something to do with jumping on a pogo stick and being dressed in a chicken suit.
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Umm..yep, that is a big hole in your fence. Hope snowplow man doesn’t kick up any more ice boulders! Tell hubby to keep some wood planks handy, just in case. SOOO glad the doggies didn’t get out the hole before you noticed it.
Gooo Zoe on the “Would you rather” question. LOL! She just cracks me up.
Sorry to hear about your windshield. Was it from the cold? Is it under warranty so it can be replaced?
My sympathies on the fence and the windshield. I can identify with you on the windshield. When I lived in Texas, insurance would not replace broken windshields. A truck threw a rock at my 29-day old SUV and put a crack in the windshield. I left it alone. The following winter, while driving north through a freezing-rain storm, the windshield cracked all the way across. I left it for 8 years before finally forking over the cash for a new one. By then, the seals were separating, so I had to replace it.
I’m sure glad the dogs didn’t get out!
Zoe is just like her mother. I should know.
holy cow, that’s just crazy! nice of them that they’re going to fix it!
Yikes in the fence!
I was a few blocks away from you when you were at the Planetarium…..how freaky is that?!?!?!? Just got back from Chicago tonight…….
I bought Hubby the Would You Rather game for Christmas. He is not impressed by it…..but I love it! Zoe cracks me up!
Read a good book while out of town……The Doctor’s Wife by Elizabeth Brundage……Couldn’t put it down…….
Happy New Year!