This firewood is all from last week's storm. There's still a little bit to be cut up yet.
One of many lillies in our yard.
Another lilly picture.
This rose plant has been in our yard "forever"
This hole in the ground is where the bottom of a broken section of pine trunk hit. It had broken off about 25 - 30 feet in the air and, based on annual rings, was 33 years old at the location where the trunk broke during last week's storm.
All that's left to clean up of the broken section of pine that broke.
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Hi Mike – Wow, what a mess! Glad you could get so much fireplace fodder out of it. Your daylily photos are lovely. We don’t expect ours to bloom until after July 1 in Minnesota, so it was nice to get an early peek at them. Our roses seem to be going to town, too.
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I like that — photos and captions only. You have been warned.
Too bad you had so much damage and cleanup. It’s a lot of work keeping up with Mother Nature even when she doesn’t unleash a severe storm. Your flower photos are absolutely gorgeous. Daylilies are one of my all-time favorite flowers. In fact, I actually bought some roots on eBay to grow them at my condo, since I couldn’t find anyone who had them to share with me. Unfortunately, I got sick and couldn’t plant them until it was too late. But at least I can look at your photos!
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Mike, I wonder if all the firewood that you have chain sawed will be used by you in a fireplace or to cook. Will you chop them further down to more manageable sizes? Would seem that they should last you for a few years!
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Woo Wee!!! that is a big ole mess!
Can never have too much fire wood, right?
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Wow, that is an awesome hole in the ground!
I really like the tiger lily with the contrasting dark background and the red, red roses with the vertical pale lines behind them.
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Betsy – A mess is right. Since we seldom use the fireplace, this wood will last a really long time. Earlier this year, we burned about three times as much wood as is stacked up because it had rotted too badly to be of much use. I hope to be able to better protect this new stuff, but we’ve got several tree downed in January 2008 that we have yet to deal with — and a couple of these trees are well over 12 inches in diameter.
Dot – Thanks! We’ve also done a little trimming of a few other branches while we were cleaning up the mess.
Ramana – We seldom use the fireplace. It’s more of a backup should we lose power. We are considering setting up something that will allow us to have a “camp fire” in the yard with a small fire that we might use for some modest cooking on occasion.
Debo Hobo – Well, when I end up having to dispose of it years later because it was too rotten to use, then we had too much firewood.
Mel – I was impressed with the size of the hole.
Those vertical pale lines are part of the porch/decking, which I’m sure you probably recognized.