Michael S. Pascua The Life of a Freelancer

A Blessing in Disguise

Wayyyy back in November, I suggested to my mother that we needed Dick Van Dyke to come and clean our chimney. We’ve never used it since we owned the house and I thought it would be nice to just stare at fire.

A month or so ago my mother and I were discussing our gutters. They needed help and probably needed to be replaced.

Two Tuesdays ago, my mother pointed to a pine tree and told it, “I’m taking you down.” Thinking nothing about it, she went to work.

That night a big storm hit Yonkers. In that wonderful mysterious twist the tree my mother pointed out went down about 3/4ths of the way. Along with that, many other trees went down. My mother and father were at work. I was actually at Eric’s because I tried to surprise him on Monday. Let’s just say the surprise failed.

I went home last Wednesday and assessed the damage. Basically, a tree fell on our house. After the tree cleaning company finally swept the trees off of the house, we realized that it only did three things: it knocked out our main electricity pole, knocked out the gutters and it removed a few bricks off of the chimney.

I was convinced that the tree would slip and hit me while I took the photo.

The family managed to dodge any real damage to the house. Now the almost tornado has become a catalyst on fixing some of the little problems with the house. We’ll now be getting new gutters, the trees around the house will be trimmed, we may finally get rid of those damn bushes that eat my car, the other bushes around the house are finally getting trimmed, and the chimney may finally be cleaned.

Is it good luck that a tree fell on the house? Actually, yes. Weird how things work out right?

About Michael

Michael is normally known as "Paz" but not usually as Mike. He likes reality television, all forms of music, and long walks (but not necessarily on the beach).