Maintenance

Living among a lot of trees, as we do, provides different activities...not only the watching of songbirds, hawks, or squirrels... but also the doing of lots of maintenance.

Our oldest son Rick...Alivia's dad...often walks back to visit...

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and many times...ends up offering a helping hand...
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Note their same body stance...

how they move in unison
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how they hold their arms in space...
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and how they twist and turn their face.
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all done while maintaining.....this over grown place!

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Some maintaining involves professionals.

The removal of branches

that have grown too close to the electric lines is

thankfully...

...the responsibility of the electric company.
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They have to go dangerously high sometimes!
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Then sometimes a nice tree like this gives us a problem...

...like blocking the satellite reception...
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and someone here...has to go dangerously high to trim the branches.
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Eventually though.....that same nice tree had to be reluctantly cut...
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Notice how it landed squarely on top of another stump...


and.....how extremely tall.

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and of course...a young deer, just like a child...had to investigate.
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Sometimes...Mother Nature herself causes an unsafe problem...

here a large oak was damaged by high wind.....
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and again reluctantly...we had to remove a nice tree.

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On the bright side though...
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it let in more cheerful sunshine.
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