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Yesterday, I drove out to my mom's place. We'd spoken last week and she'd told me that a limb had fallen out of one of the pecan trees in her backyard. I was curious about it and drove out to take a look and discovered that my mother remains a master of understatement.
The 'limb' was about half of the damn tree. It's lying on the ground, propped up on the broken section, or possibly still connected to it. The thing is too big for her saw to cut through and, if I'm being honest, I don't know how you'd cut the thing up without it falling on you. She said she was going to wait a while then call a guy she knows to come out, cut it up and haul it away.
I should point out that the pecan trees in the backyard are about 100 years old, planted by my great-grandmother, and I'm pretty sure they're starting to die. I think all of them probably need to come down, or at least be seriously pruned.
So, there was that.
Then, on the drive home, the actuator in my car started to tick. Again. I had to replace the damn thing three years ago. It costs about $300 with parts and labor. If I take the car in this time, I think I may just tell them to disconnect the damn thing. All it does, as I understand, is direct the flow of air through the vents that you want: face forward, windshield, etc. Anyway, if I turn on the Cabin Recirculator it shuts up the ticking, so that's a stopgap solution.
And this morning, I woke up with no water in the house. Jorg had forgot to pay the water bill. Again. So I had to go outside and turn the water back on, take a shower, then go pay the $134 water bill.
And on top of all of that, Mercury is in fucking retrograde. Again.
It's like we just can't catch a break.