Now working on the final 30% in our FReepathon!! Woo hoo!! We can do this!! [Thread XVII]

Click here to pledge your support via secure server! ^ | Feb 7, 2013 | Jim Robinson

[trisham]

What a great photo! I remember back in the late 80’s or early 90’s (I can’t really recall) having snow piled up in parking lots that was 20 to 30 feet high and around our driveway and front walk that was 10 feet high. Walking down the sidewalk and out to the street or out to our cars was like walking down a white hallway. Driving was extremely dangerous because it was impossible to see around corners.

[trisham]

I hear you. We had two storms where trees came down on our old house. In the second storm, a tree hit the house and then came down on my jeep. Trees are beautiful, but they can be very destructive and dangerous when subjected to high winds and/or heavy snow. We’d like to take down some of the trees that are encroaching on our house, but it’s expensive.

[Lady Jag]

I remember! Burlington Mall plowers made “Mall Mountain.” It must’ve been over 20 feet and theyleft a yellow plow up top.

[trisham]

We’ve taken four or five trees down here in our “new” house. Many more have simply fallen. One of the reasons that I liked this property was that the trees weren’t overhanging the house. A lot has changed in the past ten years.

[trisham]

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[trisham]

Wasn’t it amazing? Huge areas of the parking lots of the malls were inaccessible, and in the spring it took weeks and weeks for them to melt. Those were the days. I remember in the mid-90’s the thermometer on a tree next to our deck read -22 degrees. Thank goodness that my car didn’t die on the way to work. I saw many abandoned cars along the roadside that morning.

[trisham]

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[DJ MacWoW]

This tree is a hemlock and it’s right at the corner of the house. If it comes down it’s going to damage the foundation at the very least. It needs to come out but the landlord can’t afford it and the old guys (landlord and Hubby) can’t do it.

[onyx]

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   2013 Q1 Scoreboard — ranked by total receipts   

Rank	Location	Receipts			Monthlies
		Total	#	Avg/Per	Total	#	Avg/Per
1	California	$4,745.77	124	$38.27	$1,064.00	75	$14.19
2	Texas	3,743.65	122	30.69	1,053.00	66	15.95
3	New York	1,898.00	46	41.26	240.00	20	12.00
4	Pennsylvania	1,785.00	47	37.98	225.00	17	13.24
5	Florida	1,645.00	70	23.50	845.00	47	17.98
6	Georgia	1,585.00	28	56.61	265.00	18	14.72
7	Virginia	1,293.00	46	28.11	453.00	28	16.18
8	Ohio	1,242.00	35	35.49	306.00	23	13.30
9	Maryland	1,201.50	31	38.76	302.50	17	17.79
10	North Carolina	1,140.00	30	38.00	345.00	18	19.17
11	Colorado	1,050.00	32	32.81	280.00	16	17.50
12	Michigan	946.00	30	31.53	176.67	12	14.72
13	Arkansas	835.00	16	52.19	145.00	7	20.71
14	Washington	815.00	30	27.17	285.00	16	17.81
15	Massachusetts	641.00	24	26.71	301.00	16	18.81
16	Connecticut	610.00	10	61.00	40.00	3	13.33
17	New Hampshire	600.00	7	85.71	90.00	5	18.00
18	Alaska	570.00	7	81.43	100.00	3	33.33
19	South Carolina	560.00	17	32.94	110.00	9	12.22
20	Louisiana	558.00	10	55.80	148.00	9	16.44
21	Arizona	548.00	24	22.83	230.00	14	16.43
22	Mississippi	542.00	12	45.17	161.00	7	23.00
23	Nevada	535.00	15	35.67	110.00	8	13.75
24	Tennessee	523.00	27	19.37	155.00	13	11.92
25	New Jersey	520.00	20	26.00	55.00	4	13.75
26	Missouri	503.00	25	20.12	200.00	13	15.38
27	Australia	500.00	1	500.00	10.00	1	10.00
28	Illinois	481.00	23	20.91	206.00	13	15.85
29	Oklahoma	440.00	17	25.88	255.00	13	19.62
30	Alabama	390.00	16	24.38	245.00	13	18.85
31	Oregon	376.96	20	18.85	130.00	8	16.25
32	Indiana	355.00	18	19.72	165.00	14	11.79
33	Wisconsin	347.00	14	24.79	187.00	12	15.58
34	New Mexico	335.00	9	37.22	70.00	5	14.00
35	Kansas	320.00	16	20.00	145.00	12	12.08
36	Minnesota	318.00	20	15.90	215.00	15	14.33
37	Switzerland	300.00	1	300.00
38	United Kingdom	250.00	5	50.00	30.00	1	30.00
39	Nebraska	230.00	7	32.86	30.00	3	10.00
40	Kentucky	213.00	7	30.43	60.00	3	20.00
41	South Dakota	210.00	6	35.00	25.00	3	8.33
42	Canada	191.00	7	27.29	35.00	3	11.67
43	Montana	185.00	7	26.43	95.00	4	23.75
44	Maine	182.00	5	36.40	27.00	2	13.50
45	Utah	171.00	6	28.50	70.00	3	23.33
46	Delaware	161.00	5	32.20	10.00	1	10.00
47	Vermont	135.00	5	27.00	65.00	3	21.67
48	North Dakota	100.00	1	100.00
49	Hawaii	80.00	7	11.43	140.00	8	17.50
50	Norway	70.00	2	35.00	20.00	1	20.00
51	Iowa	65.00	3	21.67	40.00	2	20.00
52	Idaho	60.00	4	15.00	60.00	4	15.00
53	Germany	60.00	4	15.00
54	West Virginia	50.00	2	25.00	65.00	2	32.50
55	Thailand	50.00	1	50.00
56	Wyoming	35.00	2	17.50	10.00	1	10.00
57	Rhode Island	30.00	1	30.00	30.00	1	30.00
58	El Salvador	30.00	1	30.00
59	Puerto Rico	25.00	1	25.00
60	District of Columbia	10.00	1	10.00	10.00	1	10.00
61	Israel	10.00	1	10.00
62	Armed Forces - Pacific	5.00	1	5.00	5.00	1	5.00
Never Never Land		950.00	37	25.68	810.00	69	11.74
63 locations total		$38,355.88	1,169	$32.81	$10,950.17	706	$15.51

[onyx]

CONGRATULATIONS Lady Jag!

[RedMDer]

Oooh... A leg....Electric sex!

[RedMDer]

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[RedMDer]

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[onyx]

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[DJ MacWoW]

It’s too expensive. I think that we’re going to try to cut some of the lower limbs.

[onyx]

RedMDer owns that Lamp!

[DJ MacWoW]

Woo Hoo for state nullification!!! :-)

[RedMDer]

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[RedMDer]

Yes I do. Got it for Christmas. LOL!

[trisham]

It's a beautiful tree, but according to Wikipedia:

"Old trees are commonly attacked by various fungal disease and decay species, notably Heterobasidion annosum and Armillaria species, which rot the heartwood and eventually leave the tree liable to windthrow, and Rhizina undulata, which may kill groups of trees following minor grass fires that activate growth of the Rhizina spores.[9]"

We have had some serious problems in this state from the wooly adelgid, which is a hideous parasite of the hemlock.