When Porter was a puppy, he barked. And barked. And barked. As a result, Tom sat him down, had a very serious talk with him, and explained that he was only allowed to bark at terrorists. Problem solved. Except that he thinks everyone (and their dog) is a terrorist. And now that we live on the East coast – squirrels, apparently. As a result, I generally either ignore the barking, or try to get him to stop – which works, oh – 2% of the time.
So on Friday, when he out-of-the-blue started freaking out, I just assumed he’d seen a squirrel trying to bomb the house, and ignored him. But when I went out to get the mail a few minutes later, I found what I’m pretty sure was the trigger for the barking:
Our enormous Oak had lost a branch, that luckily did minimal damage to the cars.
When I was a teenager, our neighbors had a large branch that was starting to tear from the tree in their front yard, and they parked their car under it – on purpose – hoping it would fall and they’d get the insurance money. I not only really like our cars, but we own two of them, so there wouldn’t be any insurance money. This was definitely not planned. Unfortunately, parking under the Oak is unavoidable since we only have a 1-car garage. I’m glad no one was out there to get hurt, and maybe we’ll make sure the Cherokee stays closest to the tree – just in case.
Good for you. If you were to stop parking in the driveway, the terrorists win.
I see the Jeep Wrangler is safe.
I saw a squirrel throwing pine cones in our yard today – I’m now extremely suspicious that they pushed the broken branch until it snapped. They may not be terrorists – but they are very, very sneaky.
If we lived closer I could lend you Luke. He could get rid of your squirrel problem. You would need to keep him untill all his gas was out of his system.
Apparently Porter thought I was a terrorist too… at least at first. I feel oddly flattered. It’s not often I’m thought to be dangerous!
I’m glad there wasn’t serious damage. That is such a pretty tree, sad for the terrorists to use it in such a destructive way.