Dragon Slain!
Saturday, November 5th, 2022 09:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snoozefestaudioNovember started getting Novembery yesterday, when we had a nice, day long rain, and then some wind after sunset, followed by more rain over night. But it was still in the high 60sF.
Today however, it dropped down to 46F, and shit got REAL... with a properly ROARING wind!
November wind roars, with a low, menacing pitch, like it just can't do in either the summer, or the winter!
In the summer, the wind rushes through the fully leaved canopy, with a, SHSHSHSHSshshshsh... like a loud whisper.
In the winter, when the branches are bare, the wind howls and whistles a bit, if anything.
But in November, when trees are half bare... it roars!
And that roaring wind strips most of the remaining leaves from the trees.
Now... in just a day... most of the colorful canopy is gone. Only spotty patches of yellow and red, here & there, remain.
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I went back out in the yard today to deal with the fallen Mulberry... which, over the past week, I'd begun to think of as my dragon... on this weird hero's journey I've been on since last summer.
Giving up and deciding to just chill and record crickets was... the weird call to adventure. Then, in August I was joined, as a weird hero should be, by two animal companions, Snoop & Prowly.
This compelled me to get the janitor job at Grape Elementary... but before I could even start that job...
The dragon landed in my once peaceful and orderly back yard!
A massive, three ton leviathan, with long, snakey limbs thick as my torso!.. An overwhelming obstacle, threatening not just my yard, but the yards of several neighbors!
And EVERYBODY cowered at the sight of it!
The insurance company... ran for the hills!
The neighbors... went inside and closed their blinds!
My friends and relatives... ghosted me!
It was up to me alone... to slay that dragon... with a DeWalt 20V battery chainsaw, as my sword!
--<>--
Okay, so you know the story after that. And you know that last week, the big vertical limb flopped over into the neighbor's yard... in super slow motion, because of the super stretchy polyrope I rigged up.
You know that without that rope, the limb would've, kicked, went crashing down, and spun the base trunk into motion... possibly killing me.
You know that... as it played out... the limb settled over, but did rotate the entire base trunk 90 degrees, so that now IT was potentially dangerous!
--<>--
Okay, so the rope and pulleys held all week, and today... in the roaring November wind, with a pair of light gloves on, I just went at that limb with my chain saw, hacking it apart, and throwing everything over onto my side of the property line.
I had to use a six foot ladder to cut two sub-limbs still up in the air, but they fell predictably, and I chopped them apart... wheeling their sections away with my dolly.
When I'd gotten it down to just the base of that main limb, where the two pulleys were attached, I disconnected the rope, and it did not move. It just hovered over the neighbor's back lawn.
After I gathered up the rope and put it into my shed... and put the pulleys down in my shop... I assessed the situation.
The main base of the main tree trunk was still rotated 90 degrees... with a lot of it's weight still awkwardly too high off the ground.
But I just kept cutting segment after segment off that dad-burned* limb, hovering over the neighbor's lawn... until finally...
WHORUMP!...
The entire tree trunk rotated back to it's original position!.. the position it had been in, when it had first fallen!
It just rotated 90 degrees... and sat back into the original depressions it had impressed into the soil, when it had first fallen down!
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This meant that what was left of that vertical limb... just the first three feet of it, as it departed from the main trunk... was now BACK upright, into it's original position!
MEANWHILE...
EVERYTHING that had extended from it... way up into the air, like a whole tree in it's own right... was now... not only GONE... but ON MY SIDE of the property line!
The neighbor's yard was now BLANK!
ZERO parts of that tree were in the neighbor's yard anymore!... the rope and pulleys were GONE... and the trunk was resting in it's ORIGINAL position!...
Which made it look FOR ALL THE WORLD... like the vertical limb had NEVER fallen into their yard!... the trunk had NEVER rotated 90 degrees... I had NEVER used any ropes... and somehow the whole DANGEROUS part of that limb was just MAGICALLY... dismantled and on my side of the line!
--<>--
In other words, if you had seen the fall site two weeks ago, before I attached the ropes... and then come back today... you would've though I used WITCHCRAFT!..
To make most of that limb just... be all cut up in MY yard... without rotating anything either direction, and without ANYTHING ever falling into the neighbor's yard!
Indeed, the neighbors, who've only been watching the progress casually, here and there... may well think, after this... that I am a SORCERER!
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I'm calling this, DRAGON SLAIN, on Saturday, November the 4th, because as of tonight... no part of this goddam tree is in anybody's yard but my own!
No part of it going through the fence!.. No part of it is looming precariously over the next yard!
It's just a trunk now... in a stable resting state!
And... a fuck ton of branches in a disorganized pile that will take two months to break down, but... THE DRAGON IS SLAIN!
If winter came tomorrow and I couldn't do a thing more, until next March... it's FINE!
So, I'm a little exhausted, but a LOT relieved on this Saturday night!
°¦}
* It came into my mind, while working out there today, that, dad burned, is probably a saying my great grandfather would've used. He owned this same house and lot, and would've likely grappled with old fallen trees in this yard like I was today.
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Today however, it dropped down to 46F, and shit got REAL... with a properly ROARING wind!
November wind roars, with a low, menacing pitch, like it just can't do in either the summer, or the winter!
In the summer, the wind rushes through the fully leaved canopy, with a, SHSHSHSHSshshshsh... like a loud whisper.
In the winter, when the branches are bare, the wind howls and whistles a bit, if anything.
But in November, when trees are half bare... it roars!
And that roaring wind strips most of the remaining leaves from the trees.
Now... in just a day... most of the colorful canopy is gone. Only spotty patches of yellow and red, here & there, remain.
I went back out in the yard today to deal with the fallen Mulberry... which, over the past week, I'd begun to think of as my dragon... on this weird hero's journey I've been on since last summer.
Giving up and deciding to just chill and record crickets was... the weird call to adventure. Then, in August I was joined, as a weird hero should be, by two animal companions, Snoop & Prowly.
This compelled me to get the janitor job at Grape Elementary... but before I could even start that job...
The dragon landed in my once peaceful and orderly back yard!
A massive, three ton leviathan, with long, snakey limbs thick as my torso!.. An overwhelming obstacle, threatening not just my yard, but the yards of several neighbors!
And EVERYBODY cowered at the sight of it!
The insurance company... ran for the hills!
The neighbors... went inside and closed their blinds!
My friends and relatives... ghosted me!
It was up to me alone... to slay that dragon... with a DeWalt 20V battery chainsaw, as my sword!
Okay, so you know the story after that. And you know that last week, the big vertical limb flopped over into the neighbor's yard... in super slow motion, because of the super stretchy polyrope I rigged up.
You know that without that rope, the limb would've, kicked, went crashing down, and spun the base trunk into motion... possibly killing me.
You know that... as it played out... the limb settled over, but did rotate the entire base trunk 90 degrees, so that now IT was potentially dangerous!
Okay, so the rope and pulleys held all week, and today... in the roaring November wind, with a pair of light gloves on, I just went at that limb with my chain saw, hacking it apart, and throwing everything over onto my side of the property line.
I had to use a six foot ladder to cut two sub-limbs still up in the air, but they fell predictably, and I chopped them apart... wheeling their sections away with my dolly.
When I'd gotten it down to just the base of that main limb, where the two pulleys were attached, I disconnected the rope, and it did not move. It just hovered over the neighbor's back lawn.
After I gathered up the rope and put it into my shed... and put the pulleys down in my shop... I assessed the situation.
The main base of the main tree trunk was still rotated 90 degrees... with a lot of it's weight still awkwardly too high off the ground.
But I just kept cutting segment after segment off that dad-burned* limb, hovering over the neighbor's lawn... until finally...
WHORUMP!...
The entire tree trunk rotated back to it's original position!.. the position it had been in, when it had first fallen!
It just rotated 90 degrees... and sat back into the original depressions it had impressed into the soil, when it had first fallen down!
This meant that what was left of that vertical limb... just the first three feet of it, as it departed from the main trunk... was now BACK upright, into it's original position!
MEANWHILE...
EVERYTHING that had extended from it... way up into the air, like a whole tree in it's own right... was now... not only GONE... but ON MY SIDE of the property line!
The neighbor's yard was now BLANK!
ZERO parts of that tree were in the neighbor's yard anymore!... the rope and pulleys were GONE... and the trunk was resting in it's ORIGINAL position!...
Which made it look FOR ALL THE WORLD... like the vertical limb had NEVER fallen into their yard!... the trunk had NEVER rotated 90 degrees... I had NEVER used any ropes... and somehow the whole DANGEROUS part of that limb was just MAGICALLY... dismantled and on my side of the line!
In other words, if you had seen the fall site two weeks ago, before I attached the ropes... and then come back today... you would've though I used WITCHCRAFT!..
To make most of that limb just... be all cut up in MY yard... without rotating anything either direction, and without ANYTHING ever falling into the neighbor's yard!
Indeed, the neighbors, who've only been watching the progress casually, here and there... may well think, after this... that I am a SORCERER!
I'm calling this, DRAGON SLAIN, on Saturday, November the 4th, because as of tonight... no part of this goddam tree is in anybody's yard but my own!
No part of it going through the fence!.. No part of it is looming precariously over the next yard!
It's just a trunk now... in a stable resting state!
And... a fuck ton of branches in a disorganized pile that will take two months to break down, but... THE DRAGON IS SLAIN!
If winter came tomorrow and I couldn't do a thing more, until next March... it's FINE!
So, I'm a little exhausted, but a LOT relieved on this Saturday night!
°¦}
* It came into my mind, while working out there today, that, dad burned, is probably a saying my great grandfather would've used. He owned this same house and lot, and would've likely grappled with old fallen trees in this yard like I was today.
