Wednesday morning I backed out of the garage and noticed a notice taped to my front door — Code Violation, Remove that downed tree branch.

This was the first I'd heard of a downed tree branch so I looked around and sure enough my Russian olive tree had split at the base and a huge branch was down in the road. Someone had shoved it to the side so cars could go by, but it was still in the way.

I went off to work and asked around for references for a tree service, since I had about 12 days to get it removed before fines started kicking in.

But when I came home, ready to start dialing up tree services, the downed branch was gone. Poof!

I knew we had a little bit of a bunny rabbit problem, but I've never seen a beaver dam in the neighborhood.