Changes at the homestead
My mom sent me this email:
One more tree to fall. These guys are amazing. They know what they are doing. They layed one of the front trees down right where they said it would go -- top correctly placed. The trees take up lots more room on the ground than they did in the air.
It has really changed my perspective from my office. I can see the sky! It is blue with clouds moving out across the sky, and beauitful. We can still see trees from the windows, they just aren't ours. Strikes trees are obviousl. We have one "small" one left -- about 30 feet, I would say. It is not the one I expected. I thought we could keep the one close to the road, but it is gone. It is the one to the left of the fire pit -- big one, not the Charlie Brown tree. My only regret is not taking them out 5 years ago when the price of trees was high, but we should do ok on these. Enough to pay for the fireplace insert, I am pretty sure. I think they are going to burn tomorrow. I have mixed feelings about that. I know this is crazy, bit I was looking forward to the clean up process. There will probably be plenty left. And I was going to chip instead of burn. There is a lot of debris.
I just went out to watch the last one fall. It got the 30' tree pretty badly. I think it will have to come out. It stripped one side.
Anyway, I am thankful, and I will sleep better this fall. Also, we will not have to clean up the kind of yard debris we have had every winter. Also, the gutters and roof will be cleaner. Also, it will be warmer in the winter, but also in the summer. Take the good with the bad.
Love, Mom
They had, literally, the tallest trees in town. But after last year's windstorm ( Hannukah Eve Windstorm), and the wrist-sized branches sheared off and DRIVEN into the ground, mom declared that she was not going through another winter listening to the creaking right over the house.
This is good timber, straight and undiseased. It should sell for enough to pay for removal (which was made complicated by all the houses around) and a new fireplace insert so they can stop having the fire fight. One of the trees was cut off high, about 15 feet off the ground, because there was a metal clothesline grown into the bark. That's the one they are going to have the chainsaw artist come do. I am voting for "stack of books with gnome on top".
One more tree to fall. These guys are amazing. They know what they are doing. They layed one of the front trees down right where they said it would go -- top correctly placed. The trees take up lots more room on the ground than they did in the air.
It has really changed my perspective from my office. I can see the sky! It is blue with clouds moving out across the sky, and beauitful. We can still see trees from the windows, they just aren't ours. Strikes trees are obviousl. We have one "small" one left -- about 30 feet, I would say. It is not the one I expected. I thought we could keep the one close to the road, but it is gone. It is the one to the left of the fire pit -- big one, not the Charlie Brown tree. My only regret is not taking them out 5 years ago when the price of trees was high, but we should do ok on these. Enough to pay for the fireplace insert, I am pretty sure. I think they are going to burn tomorrow. I have mixed feelings about that. I know this is crazy, bit I was looking forward to the clean up process. There will probably be plenty left. And I was going to chip instead of burn. There is a lot of debris.
I just went out to watch the last one fall. It got the 30' tree pretty badly. I think it will have to come out. It stripped one side.
Anyway, I am thankful, and I will sleep better this fall. Also, we will not have to clean up the kind of yard debris we have had every winter. Also, the gutters and roof will be cleaner. Also, it will be warmer in the winter, but also in the summer. Take the good with the bad.
Love, Mom
They had, literally, the tallest trees in town. But after last year's windstorm ( Hannukah Eve Windstorm), and the wrist-sized branches sheared off and DRIVEN into the ground, mom declared that she was not going through another winter listening to the creaking right over the house.
This is good timber, straight and undiseased. It should sell for enough to pay for removal (which was made complicated by all the houses around) and a new fireplace insert so they can stop having the fire fight. One of the trees was cut off high, about 15 feet off the ground, because there was a metal clothesline grown into the bark. That's the one they are going to have the chainsaw artist come do. I am voting for "stack of books with gnome on top".