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| Today, I woke up to a super-terrific surprise! | The evil tree near my house was getting trimmed! |
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| It’s really tall and so’s that truck! |
I’m watching the city tree crew take down the neighbor's gigantic pine tree. Yikes. That's really high! |
You’re probably wondering why a dog would have a feud with a tree. But if a tree had it out for you, I’m sure you’d feel like me. Yeah, it looks pretty innocent, but it’s a pine tree.
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| So it has these, which can be unhealthy to dogs who want to live. | One minute you’re standing in the driveway, while you enjoy the scenery. |
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| But at any second, Blam! A young, but not innocent, pinecone could fall from 20-80 feet or more and land on your head. In fact, one landed just a foot from me the other day. Here I am re-enacting the near consequences. I could have been knocked unconscious! |
Ok. I am getting instructions that I need to act more stunned. So here’s my unconscious look. Does this pose make me look fat?
The immature pinecones weigh more than a baseball, especially in winter when they are nutrient dense. They get lighter as the season progresses and then they open up to their more familiar seed dispersing shape. |
You are probably wondering how I can watch the tree safely come down without getting smooshed by a branch? A highly trained crew is taking it down bit by bit.
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| They have a pulley system for lowering the branches. | |
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| Here’s the cutting and tying up close. | |
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| The crew started at 8:00 am and it's now 5 hours later. | Here are the branches turning into wood chips. |
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| Yahoo. I’ve conquered the tree! Only a mere totem pole is left. The crew took this pole down in just a couple of hours and now there’s just a tree base! | |
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