Down at my mailbox, yesterday, the UPS guy drove by and said he left a package for me at the store. Going from my Mailbox to the store adds another 2 miles to my already 5 mile long walk and I wanted to get back to my cabin and watch the movies that Netflix had sent me– plus it was cold–so I left getting the package for another day.
Walking back, I thought about the call from the wood cutting gentleman. I started thinking about putting my chainsaw and all of it’s accouterments away for the winter.
My neighbor pulls up and asks me if I have seen my upper property since the wind storm. She said her husband wanted her to ask me to cut some of the trees down on my property that they were afraid would fall down and block the road.
I don’t really like falling trees… I’m always afraid that they may fall on me, but I said, ” Yeah, I’ll go do that right away.” So I finished my walk, changed into my soot covered wood cutting clothes, took all the stuff out the back of my pickup, filled the chainsaw with gas and oil and drove up to top of my property.
Running a chainsaw, and falling trees is probably not something you should do when you’re thinking, “I just want to get this done and get back to my warm cabin and watch some DVDs.” Sawdust kept getting in my eyes because I forgot my safety glasses. One of the trees I fell, got stuck in another tree’s branches and I had to keep shaking it to try and get it to fall. I was lucky to make it back without injury..
After the big wind storm there are lots of seasoned trees down, right next to the road, and since the wood cutting gentleman didn’t call last night like he said he would, I should probably keep cutting.
