well the lights are back on in the tiny offices of tinyengine and people are shuffling around. because of the recent cold snap, everyone is hunkered down with cocoa and electric blankets. (we have very friendly offices.) it was a big new year, with great news and bad news, tolling simultaneously. we prefer to focus on the good and to hold a kind thought in our heads for the people affected by the bad. and i mean, any bad. not just the bad that i'm thinking about, or the bad you might be thinking about, or even the bad that you think i might be thinking about. all bad news people can use a good thought, so let's just have some extras floating around for them, ok?
item: the house next door or that old saw.
that having been said, i will tell you that this next item falls kind of in the bad news column, but it's nothing, comparitively speaking. the other morning, the people who are still trying to figure out how to rebuild the house next door started yelling. everyone woke up. the whole neighborhood was about to tell the guys to stop yelling, until suddenly, one of the yelling guys started up a chainsaw. then it was yelling, chainsaw and chipper continuously for 7 hours. at first we thought they were trimming the gigantic and rather majestic pine tree in front of the house. we thought it was probably ok, because it could use a little thinning out. then, branch by branch, the whole tree started to come down. the chipper chewed away at the huge pieces and then, when i looked outside, there was just a long trunk and a tiny tuft of pine branches at the top. it was then that i realized that they weren't trimming the tree, they were removing it. sure enough, the tuft disappeared, and they sawed the trunk down, piece by piece, lowering each mighty chunk with a rope. in the end, there was just a stump and we watched out our window as a guy with a remote control unit stood on the doorstep of the ugly house, operating a big yellow machine which turned the gigantic stump and into dust. and that was it. now it looks like there never was a tree there. i have a feeling that the other trees in the neighborhood got wind of the whole thing via their intertwined roots and i think everyone is pretty sickened by it. now those guys in there are playing ac/dc and floating the ceiling. gosh, it's just awful all around.
well, i anticipate that the market will keep dropping, this guy won't have the house finished in time and he won't make any money. who knows? it's been going on since september. we shall see. i sure miss that tree though when i look out my window.
happy new year to everyone, saplings and big trees alike.
