No phone. No DSL

Life is never boring.

Saturday morning. GB leaves for work at 9am. I am on the phone with my mom. At 9:30 I check email. All good.

9:40 I leave the house, and lo and behold, a tree has fallen. On the rock wall. Parts of it are blocking the gate. And worst of all.... it fell right on the phone line. No phone. No DSL.

After Ra'am took the SAT, he and I set out to clean up the mess. The phone company said they'd be out by the end of Monday.

Ra'am looked psyched to go at the tree with the axe. Neither he nor I know how to use the chainsaw, and I was hoping not to have to call GB, who is very very busy getting ready to go back to LA for more voice recording.

We climbed up the hill and saw how large the tree really was! It's a junk tree (gunpowder)-- and not well rooted, obviously.
Inside the trunk was some hollow areas and an abandoned bee hive

The sad phone/ DSL line

Ra'am and I worked and worked. The amount of work was overwhelming, and I knew that GB could finish it off quickly with the proper tools

Luka hung out with us

GB drove home from work and quickly grabbed his chansaw and the tractor

20 seconds of chainsaw = 5 minute of axe

GB also used the tractor to push all of the rubbish into the bushes. It would have easily taken us another hour to clean up the mess w/o the tractor

Done!

Unfortunately this was NOT the only issue/ tragedy that week. Our oven flipped out again (thank goodness for extended warranties!).

The worst was that a neighborhood dog got into one of the goat pastures and killed Tamarind :( We are incredibly upset about it and have no idea who the dog belongs to :(