Wordless Wednesday May 11, 2016

Russell and Mike ready to make firewood!

 

Siskiyou County necessity...

 

More Siskiyou County required equipment... 

 

Why the tree died... 

 

Angry biting ants do not like being disturbed... 

 

Yikes

 

It went down between two smaller trees 

KaBaam!

 

Looking from the top towards the stump

 

 

Russell resting on his laurels...

 

The Knob Cone Pine tree was approximately

96' tall and approximately 40" across the top of the stump. The top of the tree snapped off when it fell so I am not sure how tall it really was. Now to figure out how to buck it up to the top of the hill so it can be split. If need be we'll just take the  wood splitter down to the tree and use the ATV and trailer to bring up the split wood. Besides this tree Russell and Mike took out 3 Oaks that were also dead.

Most likely from the 4 year drought

and the Mountain Pine Beetle.

 All photos were taken May 9, 2016

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Six Words and Sunday Shadows! September 19-20, 2015

Five shadowy photos for six words.

 

Russell keeps painting....

 

 

I keep shadowing....

 

 

Finding silly shots....

 



 

Stacking more wood....

 

Spotting small objects....

 

 

Hah I gotcha!

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Six Words and Sunday Shadows August 8-9, 2015

 

We have been busy this week.....

 

Orange sunrise due to wildfires 

August 7, 2015

 

Smoky skies create an eerie light

inside our home....

 

 

Russell has been tremendously

busy cutting down dead trees due to pine beetles and the drought.

 

Lots of nicely stacked wood

waiting for the log splitter we

will be borrowing from friends.

 

Everywhere I turn there's another pile!

 

I think the "Chefette" owes him

a big steak dinner?? 

 

Meanwhile.....

 

We listened to these incredible musicians... 

who are here for a week of study

and performances.

This is the third year for this event.

Pacific Crest Music Festival .
They played one evening at
Dunsmuir Brewery Works

 

And after our Friday hike they came

to a friends home to play after

we had eaten our pot luck lunch... 

 

And here's why children should have

music lessons....

 

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Have a great week and do visit

Six Word Saturdays and Shadow Shot Sunday!



There is always something to do!

What began as this in December.....

  

Timber!!

Is now firewood for the winter!

Our great friends who just live up

the road brought their log splitter

up yesterday and between Russell, Bill and

Ewana short work was made

of that huge tree!

We ended up with about 4 cords of wood.

We shared half with Bill and Ewana.

Thanks to them the job was made so easy!

Nothing  better than neighbors helping neighbors!



Timber!!!

We had a Douglas Fir tree that was leaning

way over our driveway....

We opted to have it removed safely

rather than wait for a storm to

take it out and block our driveway...

This machine manueverd all the logs up

closer to our house so we cna

more easily this summer buck it up

for firewood...

just another day in the wild woods of Weed....