Happy (?) New Year

The first week of 2023 has turned out to be much too exciting for me. On Tuesday morning I woke up to find that two massive oak trees in my back yard had uprooted and fallen, away from the house. One had demolished half of a storage shed; the other was precariously threatening the remaining half. On Wednesday it completed the damage. These were lovely, thirty-inch diameter trees, probably nearly three hundred years old. When I reported this to the insurance adjuster, she requested that I make a list of the personal items that were destroyed in the shed and…