March 20, 2006

  • Good morning


    It was a busy day yesterday as you saw.  And today is hopefully business as usual.  We will do school, and a bit of yard work, and maybe sneak to the beach as its sooooooooo beautiful out there.


    The logger came out and took the big tree down, and oh man was that sucker rotten.  BIG time rotten.  Its amazing it was still up in the air.  LOL  Which it was just barely up there.   The kids think its a great play place, and they were climbing all over it.  It is currently sitting in the middle of my circle driveway.  *sigh*  Our new friends from church will come get it for firewood.  


    This is the tree as Sherman starts to cut it.  Poor guy its a antique tree, seems a shame to have to bring it down.  I will say however it sure brought more light into my yard when it went.  You can see how bad it was leaning in that picture.  Its the tree behind the blue object in the picture btw. 


                  


    And this is the tree half way down.  My kids were highly impressed by the "boom" it made when it landed.  And ironically Rob missed it all as he'd run to the grocery store for a minute.


                          


    And this is a picture of the butt you can sure tell why it was having issues staying right-side up.  It was a nursling tree in that it grew in a older trees stump.  The problem was is it started growing about 10 feet off the ground.  And so as the older tree's stump got more and more rotten it was a LONG way from dirt to keep it stable.


                


    Maybe someday the stump will nurse another one huh?  That would be cool.  In the meantime my children think its the newest playtoy in the yard.


                       


    There's one other tree that I want down, and another tree my dad wants down.  The one my dad wants down is still healthy, it just happens to be another nursling tree.  Its not in danger of hitting the house, or leaning.  So, for now I'm gonna hum and pretend that its "safe".   The one in my close-up yard is DEAD/dying.   I really really want it gone.   The good news is its leaning away from the house.   Hopefully dad can do it quite soon. 

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