Just Some Wind

Been a busy week on the farm. The windstorms that happened here over the weekend brought a huge part of a tree down across our 'house' garden, right over the potato bed! I still have a 6 by 4 foot area left of potatoes to harvest, and the tree was right on top of that so it had to be cleaned off as soon as possible.

Luckily, the fallen tree did not break the fence, at least, not drastically. A picket or two are broken and the top rail of the fence has split, however, the fence has not fallen down, and it's still useful and keeping Nikko pup from gaining access to the open fields. Phewww.

The broken tree lying across a wheelbarrow (one can barely see it) which is holding part of the potato harvest!

Anyway, I've spent the last 3 days cleaning up the tree. I've been working somewhat slowly, cutting all the branches off with clippers, then cutting the thicker limbs with a hand saw. I made myself carry every bundle of branches to a huge pile which we fed to the goats, telling myself that walking was a good thing, even if I had to do it over and over and over again . Hubby helped me yesterday and cut even more limbs. So now we've only just got a little bit of the tree left to remove. It's on the other side of the fence, out of the potato bed, and it's the part of the tree trunk that needs a chainsaw to do. Unfortunately our chainsaw is still at my Mom's; left there after we broke up a tree that fell on her yard a few months ago!

So, I'm feeling kind of proud of myself for doing all this tree cleaning up. Of course, Nikko helped a LOT. He's been really good at carrying little branches away after they've been cut. Did he put them on the heap of branches which we fed to the goats? No. How's about the compost heap? No. How's about right where you are walking? Yes! But he was a help!

Nikko, getting ready to start work on the tree. Such a help!

The windstorms we had that broke the tree were bad, but nothing like what's been happening to others. Hope everyone is safe, remains safe, and things are as good as they can be given the circumstances.

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