Entertainment a la Northwest Ohio

I was sitting here this morning, approximately 9:30 am.

As I was going about my morning online routine of: email, blog readings and updates, logging in of various messengers, (insert interruption by phone call from crazy grandmother), and checking email #2 and thinking about what the day will bring (as if there are many choices here in Nowhereland)...the EARTH LITERALLY SHOOK.

In Ohio. Panic of course was my immediate response. How ELSE would I react? If you expected any less of a reaction...nice to meet you. I'm Melinda.

I leaped from the computer chair (incidentally nearly taking the freaking kneecap off of my knee on the keyboard shelf --followed by a few choice words) and limped to the front door and attempted to open it. One wouldn't think that this would be so difficult a task, however, my mother has this blasted two-sided doorsock that prevents the door from wanting to budge. (Let alone the key basket on the doorknob and the wreath that refuses to stay where it should.)

Once the wreath was on the ground, the basket removed, deadbolt unlocked, doorsock pryed out, knee bruised, and two fingernails busted, I swung open the door to find out what kind of natural disaster we were dealing with. I saw a tree. Now trees themselves are far from rare in Ohio. However, seeing a gargantuan 100 + year old maple lying in the middle of the highway is something...new.

My neighbor had decided after the major ice storm we faced in January that it would probably be smart to cut down the half-dead tree that sat in front of his house. During the storm that very tree nearly fell on our house.

There were about 5-6 guys around 20-25 years old scurrying about like lil cockroaches in Carhartt jackets attempting to hurriedly clear the tree from the highway. Hurry up boys. Cars drive there. (Isn’'t this against the law?)

Yes. I stood there for a while…watching them as if it were some sort of theatrical production put on just for me and my own personal entertainment. It’s amazing what you define as entertainment in the country. If it would have been warmer I would have grabbed a chair.