Fall

 I did a long-overdue repair to our front porch by replacing the bottom of the posts.  It's a wonder why/how the roof wasn't sagging yet, but a relief to be told by Alan to just do the posts and not rebuild the porch.

Also sending kudos to Alan for giving me an extra table saw he had sitting around the shop.  This wouldn't have come out as nicely without it.

No kudos to our neighbor who has let trees on his property get to dangerous states but done nothing about them until they fall.  So far the two that have partially come down haven't hit our house, or us, but one hit some wires that didn't snap at the time.  A high voltage wire did snap a few days later when I was headed to the creek for a swim after spending most of the day crawling under the porch.  There was a loud, colorful explosion and when I looked up the wire was coming towards me.

I was on the sidewalk about in the middle of the top picture when this happened.  No one from NYSEG showed up for quite awhile so I ended up calling the fire department who closed the street until the utility crew came to replace the wire.  Still several trees on the property with potential to take someone or their property out. 

 

He left this one hanging for a few weeks.  Luckily, when it came down it hit some different wires without damaging them and fell harmlessly between his building and our fence.  Both damaged trees, and a dead one hanging over our garden, are still standing.  I'm not looking forward to the first heavy, wet snow or ice storm.

Update:  2/3 of the damaged trees have been cut down, and the big deal for our peace of mind, the dead one.  No damage, no cost to us: just long-awaited relief from a half-hour of work by the professionals.