Timmmm-berrrrrrrr!

There have been eight very tall, dead red pines lurking near our house for quite some time now. We have been meaning to get around to cutting them down so that they didn't fall down on the house ... but somehow hadn't gotten to it yet. Then one day, Gregory was telling this fantastical story about seeing a tree fall down outside his window during one of his afternoon naps. It seemed like ... just a funny thing to say, maybe? But as he described in ever-greater detail what it looked like crashing through the other trees in the forest and then springing back a little as it hit the ground, it started to be a little alarming. HAD he actually seen a tree go down? I took a look outside, and there was indeed a recently-fallen, dead red pine tree at the edge of the forest, right where he could see it from his bedroom window.


ALARM! Time to get the other dead trees cut down!!!! So, Grandpa spent an astonishingly short time with his chainsaw, and all the trees were safely down. It was amazing to feel the impact as those seemingly-spindly trees hit the ground. It would have been incredibly bad if one had fallen on the house.











Here's a little video clip of one tree going down into the forest.