Chickens in the tree

We were hit by two tropical storms coming from two different directions, earlier this week. We were promised lots of rain and strong gale force winds. Well, the weather man was right... for once. When we woke on Wednesday morning, this is what we woke to....

It doesn't look too bad until we got closer....

The tree branch ended up on top of the chicken run and completely in the free-range area!

I've always worried about that tree branch and hoped this storm wouldn't be the one that brought it down. I've always envisioned the whole thing coming down and flattening the chicken coop and run. So, I'm grateful that the chickens were inside their coop and sleeping while this happened. I am even more grateful for the well-designed chicken coop and run not caving in (thanks again to my handy hubby!).

Later on that afternoon, I stopped to buy a tree saw and got started on clearing what I could as I don't do heights so don't get on the ladder.

I had to wait for Holming to get home to help lift the branch off the roof. You should have seen us out there pulling and tugging with ropes to get the branch off the tree so that it wouldn't fall on the neighbour's fence and or/ us.



On the positive side of all this, I don't have to worry about that branch during the Winter storms. Happy ending... and happy hens!