Never, ever have I been outside in winds like the ones we had Sunday! The loudest noises were continuous flapping of the heavy tarps that hang on the chain-link fence around HD's garden area. Some of the ropes came loose...It really was Scarrrrry!!! !
The poor outside cashier managed to ring up whatever folks had bought. One older lady had 3 shopping carts full of asst. stuff. I bet her sale came up to around $300. I helped her load it in her van. She was just throwing things in there.
Why were we all outside you may ask?
A big, long tractor trailer pulled up with a load of X-Mas trees. Easily close to 2-hundred..
All able boddied males and 3 female associates (i helped some too) were out there unloading the trees.
Throwing them out from the truck---not very carefully.
I bet some tops of the trees got broken off.
At one point--I saw a shopping cart start to roll down the road behind the garden fence. It was just rolling and rolling...I saw it and went to catch up with it.
Finally did--half way down the road.
Found a job I could do to help without too much effort. Putting all the cute, smaller trees (3'-4') in their saucers. Cleaned all the webby netting off each one too. Stood them all up in a protected spot.
The vendor will have to find a place to display them all. We already have a table full of these.
Tony was off yesterday. BOY! Could we have used his help!
This AM I went out to scrutinize what damages may be out there. No pots outside. They are all taken care of. Did see some seriously long pieces off my trees. All deadwood. Gathered them all up and left them in a pile. Will deal with it all when it gets warmer. Ahhh--the adventures of working at the HD. Gita
