In My Life
Over the holidays, our household experienced some mild upheaval but it all ended happily ever after. Right before Christmas, a huge tree in our backyard feel on and took out the lines for our Verizon Fios internet, cable and home telephone lines. It had been raining heavily over the previous week, and the tree was dead enough and the tree's root system week enough that all it took was a massive amount of rain and down the tree came. Luckily, no on was hurt and the broken fence will eventually be replaced. Verizon sent a rep came out to inspect the damage the following Monday. The only way to enter our backyard is through a gate that is secured with a padlock, and when the Verizon rep left, he didn't close the lock so the gate was left open. Just to give you an idea of how cute my doggies are, here is a pic - Lucy is on the right & Ringo is on the left. About 6:30 that night, right after I had discovered I'd lost my cell phone, Doug tells me...