This makes the third time in 2 1/2 weeks. Wind blew and blew. Before the storm we had picked up several wheel barrow loads of branches in the yard, and two full pickup loads.
And after the latest storm we were back to square 1, except we had trees that fell.
One of them fell across our power lines. We could have cut it off of them ourselves, but that violates our first rule of life: Minimize your own work by maximizing the work of others.
It also violates another rule which is power lines are for professionals, and we aren't.
Here is the culprit after cutting it away. We still have to clean up this mess someday.
Having the power go out is kind of fun, actually. We still have heat (wood stoves), and can cook (camp stove and use of the camper stove and oven). We have a generator, but of course I had become lazy and hadn't started it for two years. It paid me back by exercising my shoulder a lot and then refusing to kick on. I've learned my lesson. When the weather gets better I'll clean the plug, etc. and then be nicer to it.
We had taken out about 15 trees last year (not us, of course, but we did write the checks for it). We will never know what kind of disaster we might have prevented by doing this. The pine tree right outside our front door split in several places when it fell, so chances are it would have fallen on our house with the high winds. Because of all of the rain the ground is also insecure for holding the bigger trees.
I think that's what happened in our front yard, in a place we hadn't focused on in terms of cutting down trees. Probably smart decision, as they didn't fall where they could hurt anyone. An Alder and a Fir tree.
But that requires a lot of clean up, and then we'll have to cut them into rounds and find a place to stack them until we get the wood-splitter we are part owners of and split them.
Here are the trees that fell into the yard:
Here I go to make them pay for their misdeed:
The first step is to cut off all of the branches.
Haul them into the woods or into the back of the pickup:
And unload them into the woods along Zig Zag Lane that goes through our property:
We still have a lot of work to do, but we can tell we had been here:
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