September 30, 2007

  • Rain Begins

    Good morning.

    And well its raining.

    Real rain.

    Torrential Downpour, has been since about 9:30 last night.

    Our power blinked on and off about 5x.  The 3x we just headed to bed.  It was obvious tv wasn't happening, and we were exhausted.

    We went and picked up a sailboard from a freecycle member yesterday.  It will be a lot of fun for the kids to play on the river next summer.  I know cause we played on one at our beloved Lake Lael.

    We also did Walmart, FashionBug, and Goodwill.   It was a full day and my feet throbbed by the time we were done.  Ahh well, it was mostly fun.

    My dad was here in the morning as well for what is rapidly becoming a traditional Saturday morning.  As an added bonus he fell a danger tree that was by the back of the house.  I had asked him to look at them the week before.  And one of the two was EXTREMELY rotten.  After it was down on the ground a whole bunch of ants were quite unhappy we'd disturbed their home.   As they had been living in over half of the butt of the tree.  NOT good.

    Dad had to use wedges to get the tree to fall in the right direction as it was sooooo rotten on the bottom.  I do not know why it survived last winter.  And the irony is that we had a huge wind storm along with the rain last night so it was impeccable timing to remove it!

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    The really funny irony is even though the butt of the tree was HUGE it was only 25 years old.  We grow spruce big around here.  LOL 

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    All of the dark brown is rott across the base of the tree.  Which means a good third of it was rotten.  The third that was closest to the house go figure.

    And to get an idea of how big the butt is.....

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    Yeah kinda big.

    And how long?  It would have landed across the kids bedrooms AND our kitchen. 

    So very good to have it gone.  The good news is its a tree we couldn't see from our house except our backdoor, and it wasn't particularly beautiful or one of my favorites, so I wasn't sad to see it go...just relieved.

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    I'm standing at the tip.  My dad is standing a third of the way down.  And the tree was about ten feet from the back of the house.  Just all a little too close in my opinion.

     

     

     

Comments (3)

  • Talked to my friends in Vancouver, WA tonight.  Sure wish you could share some of that rain.  We drove home from KC in downpours that finally got so bad we had to pull off the road but when we got home surprise surprise barely wet.  SIGH

  • That is great that your dad was able to get it down this weekend.  Looked like fun too.

  • You'd be very glad that tree is down safely!

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