Speaking of falling trees . . . I have a limb that broke out of the top of my pecan tree last fall.  It got caught up in lower limb and has been there ever since.  It seems to have shifted over in the last couple of storms and now looks like it willl continue it's trip to the ground at any time.  I'm cheap.  I don't want to have to pay a tree service to come out and nudge the limb to the ground.  I could just wait for nature to take it's course . . . but we walk under it every day and I think we've pushed our luck to the limit.  That, plus, Joy tells me every day before she goes to work, "CALL THE TREE GUY AND GET THAT LIMB DOWN!"

Soooooo . . . I felt pretty good this afternoon and said to myself, "Self, If you could get a rope wrapped around it and give it a slight tug it would be down."  The problem is, the lower part of it is 25-30 feet in the air.  I've got a 20' extension ladder, but the tree trunk is the only place to prop it and at the top, I'm still 25 feet or so away from it. I tried getting near the top of my 8' step ladder and thowing a small piece of another limb that fell at it with a rope tied to it.  The rope got tangled on the ladder and caused my stick of firewood to go in big arc over my head and into the windshild of my 66 bus.  I was busy covering my head and hoping it went on behind me so I didn't see it hit . . . when I heard it break glass, I thought it was my truck's windshield.  The 66 is a rusty, non-rolling hunk of rust and the windshield was already cracked, so I let out a BIG sigh of relief and came down off the ladder.  I'm beat. Joy's on the way home.  The limb is still hanging.  I haven't called the tree guy.  I'm gonn'a go buy a doghouse.  

Igot a nifty dog house for you

It's an '84.  I'm pretty sure it's the same windshield for all 82-93 S-10's, S-10 Blazers and GMC S-15's and S-15 Jimmies.  There a millions of 'em out there, so I'd think it would be pretty resonable as windshields go.  Mine had a crack in the top corner of passenger side and it leaked.  When I got the truck it was busted.  Kyle picked me up a windshield at a Pull-A-Part for 28 bucks, I bought a $15 tube of windshield glue and I had Justin help me put it in (hence the leaking and the crack on the passenger side).  Made a mess with that glue stuff too!  It sticks to EVERYTHING it touches and it never really dries.  And, I broke the plastic trim.  I think I'll leave this one to a professional.

The new windshield will probably cost about what the tree guy would have charged.  I think I used this on someone else earlier today, but what was it Forest Gump said?  "Stupid is as stupid does?"  Yep.  That Forest dude may not have been a smart man, but he knew what stupid was.   

When I got Homer, he had a crack running right across where you look driving down the road.  It even had this nifty little jagged place in the crack that would grab sunlight from any direction, magnify it and send right to your eyeball.  Anthony was getting his bus painted at the time and replaced the windshield because it was fogged pretty bad in the corners and along the bottom.  He gave me his old on and I put it in Homer by myself and didn't have a problem.  About the third time I drove it, a car in front of me threw a rock up and chipped it.  I didn't get the chip fixed and 7 or 8 years later if finally cracked.  I've got another VERY GOOD windshield I got from Pull-A-Part for $28 . . . they've gone up on their windsheilds, so I'll eventually give it one shot at installing another bay window windshield.  If I crack it, it's off to a professional.  I've installed lots and lots of glass in Beetles and so far, I've never cracked a piece of VW glass installing it, but I've leaned my lesson on these glued in windshields.   

Apparently things are right on track in the triangle!

Igot a nifty dog house for you

How big is it?  I need a BIG one.   

The winds have died down . . . and the hanging limb is still hanging. 
The big end did tip a little more towards the ground, but it just won't let go!   

and the hanging limb is still hanging.

I knew a guy from Hanging Limb, TN (google it...it exists!) named "Germ". He went to UT and he only had one eye and rarely showered. I saw him shave a full beard into a hitler 'stash for 2 cigarettes.... Watch out for Hanging Limbs...they'll kill you!