i almost lost my stove today!

so yeah, i almost lost my stove, and a big chunk of my house.

here's the stove-



here's the car that almost drove into my house at 50 mph-



you can see the cinder block chimney for the stove above the guy wearing green.

a guy fell asleep while driving, swerved off the road, and hit one of the 2,000 pound rocks that we put on the lawn to keep drunks from hitting the house. he moved the rock 12 feet, but missed the house. had he gone through the sunporch, he would have hit the stove after 4 feet while plowing into our house. probably wouldn't have slowed him down! but hitting the end of the concrete retaining wall sure stopped him.

i like my stove, i never thought a sleeping person could destroy it! too many other things could go wrong internally, i assumed.

yep, had another rock put in yesterday, and a few more are coming soon!

yeah, i can just say the rocks were always there. cement posts, maybe not. and rocks are prettier. but we did have it measured so the rocks are out of any right of way just to be safe. they were actually put there to keep the snowplows off the lawn. they would plow 20 feet up the lawn and pile snow right against the front of the house! here's a pic from after last winter of a rock that stopped a plow, we had 6 legally required orange sticks marking something under the snow and to stop plowing-



i'm in springfield vt.

i don't think the rock kept him from driving off, i think it was slamming the 2 foot high retaining wall. if that wasn't there he would have been back on the road.