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Of a Walnut Tree

7/30/2014

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It's one of those things in life, when something you'd rather not see go, has to go.

Such was the case with our beautiful Black Walnut by the road:
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It was rotting at the base and we didn't want it to fall across the road (where it most likely would have landed) and in all probability, taken out the power line across the road. (Had that happened, we would have been most unpopular with the neighbors!!)

We are all saddened to see this beautiful (and indeed heavily laden) tree felled, but as I kept saying "It's a parapet on the roof kind of situation". 
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I watched it fall. It's not the first tree I've ever seen fall, but it never fails to amaze me how slowly and sedately they fall. 
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The wood is beautiful...
We started the clean up...but didn't get finished. Then...we didn't work on it today for various reasons.
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It got cut above the rot, but you can see here where it was starting to work upwards.
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Thankfully, this one of Grandma's three "little trees" didn't get damaged too badly by the walnut's limbs crashing around it.
Guess what we found in a hollowed out portion of the tree??

FROGS... :D
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There were at least three in there--maybe more. (Doesn't that one on the right look like he's smiling?)
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Ze man wit de chain-saw... (you can see in this picture how close the tree is to the road.)
I was going to do a more interesting, chatty sort of post, but it just hasn't come bubbling out of me...so you'll have to put up with this one. :P

I'm feeling rather tired and I doubt my alertness last night when I should have been sleeping, but was instead thinking upon the subject of socks [don't ask--you might laugh], helped that dull tiredness I've had all day. Well, that or the very nasty ache I had in my right hip for most of the day. 

I did get a little progress made on Cow Cavalry narration...oh goodness!! Have I forgotten to share that bit of exciting news over here??? Well, last week, Mr. K sent me the narration!!!! I've worked on the Cow Cav a couple of times since then. I am still sorting through and editing audio to one extent or another at this point and haven't put my nose back to the video grindstone. (I like doing that part a lot, so please don't take that description in a negative sense!! :D)

Well, I have a handwork project I'm on a dead-line for...so I'll close for now. :)

     Racheal

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