YOUCH!
That is a sort of what it sounded like at about 8am this morning in our backyard, there was some swearing that followed that as well.
The red mark is the aftermath of a tree limb thwacking me in the forehead this morning. The storm that blew through town last night and had us hunkered down in the guest bathroom has claimed one of the dead trees in the backyard. It had fallen over on the fence and I wanted to move it before it had a chance to sit there all day, potentially breaking the fence as they day went on.
The red mark was much more pronounced this morning, but I didn’t have a chance to mess with my laptop webcam until lunch.
BEFORE
As you can see the tree has fallen back onto the fence, those green leaves you see on the left are from a younger tree (maybe 2 years old) that got tangled up in the dead tree as it fell. I speculate that the younger tree’s limb was being thrown about by the strong winds into the dead tree and finally knocked it over.
You can also see, where the one root has been pulled up. From looks of it the tree twisted counter-clockwise while it fell as the root was actually sitting in the sort of dark line that starts at the left edge of the pic frame and moves on a jagged diagonal up to the hole where the tree once stood.
AFTER
I managed to push tree up and off the fence and push it towards the shed. The picture below that is of the empty hole and what remains of the stump in that hole. (additional tree pics)
I will need to grease up the chain saw and cut this bad boy into much smaller pieces, bundle it all up and leave it on the curb this weekend. I hope that I can get it done early in the morning, else I might die, given that it is supposed to be 100+ degree out this weekend.
Back to the grind.
Laterz