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| Requiem for a Tree |
Well folks, I’ve been struggling in frustration to log on to
this account. The powers-that-be wiped off my automatic access and I’ve
periodically wrestled with the technology, each time giving up before the
problem was solved. I finally resolved it and am back able to blog again. On
top of that, sweet husband changed the program that downloads photos and I can’t
unload my camera into the computer anymore. It takes several “practice times”
for me to learn new tech. It’s no fun being a technomoron nowadays!
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| Hacking Away |
Anyhoo, to get caught up. There’s nothing much new in the
soap kitchen, so I’ll relate our Lumberjack Tale.
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| Old Man in a Tree |
As soon as the snow
melted off, we decided it was time to take down the service berry tree that was
planted from a mere shoot in 2002.
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| Bent Arborvitae--don't worry it's ok |
Because it was a tiny twig dug (with permission) from the
forest at my old college grounds, we thought it was a bush that would stop
growing at 8-10 feet.
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| We've Only Just Begun |
Well, it wasn’t like the other twigs we dug and replanted
that day and once it hit 10 feet, it accelerated and didn’t stop. Instead, it
grew 3-4 feet a year until it was suddenly 40+feet tall, shedding nasty purple
berries in the neighbor’s driveway and reseeding a million babies under its
canopy.
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| Your Truly Setting Ropes |
On top of that, it developed a crack down the trunk and we
knew it was just a matter of time until it split and fell potentially causing
property damage.
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| Missed the Fence! |
The tree service quoted us an outlandish price to take it
down, so we decided to do it ourselves. First, we went on youtube and fully acquainted
ourselves with DIY tree cutting disasters. Not wanting to kill ourselves or
take out the pergola or smash our neighbor’s house or fence, or down the
electric wire to the cottage, we proceeded with caution.
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| Last Limb |
Eventually, sweet husband’s bad knee couldn’t take the ladder work, so
guess who got to monkey up and down the ladder? He does, however, have a doctorate
in physics, so he devised a way to saw limbs from the ground and once the ropes
were in place, knew which way to direct the crap to fall.
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| Maybe now the stunted arborvitaes will grow |
When the last limb came harmlessly tumbling down (weeks
later), we heartily congratulated one another on it not falling on our heads or
any other valuable property.
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| The Malevolent Crack |
Whew! Not too bad for a couple of Seniors, huh?
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