neighborly chat

Every so often I meet my neighbor (I will call him Thomas) and we catch up on local goings on.  Not a Robert Frost walk the line and set the wall event but courteous enough.  He hailed me as he backed his truck out his drive (I learned later he was on his way to the insurance company) and we got chatting.  I mentioned I heard his chainsaw the previous day hard at work followed by a loud crash.  He explained that he was taking down a rotten tree some of whose limbs had fallen on and made ineffective Read more [...]