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Posted on 12/01/2006 12:55:15 PM PST by ecurbh
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
I think I estimate about 35 rings on this close up from one of the pictures!
So some of our younger members may not have been around when they were planted but many of us were. :~)
I am always interested in how changing our woods are every year, there's always new planting, current logging, mature stuff that will be next to go, and everything in between, and now, storm damage. Yes, we mourn when they're cut, but there will be another forest and the diversity of age and sunlight and shade makes it real interesting.
True words, my FRiend, true words indeed.
Hmm, nice photo of the tree rings. Fifty year rotation, well y'all get a bit more precip up there than we did on the Rim.
There's a few up there that are older... Like this one we posed Becky from the Saddle Club under. That one was alive certainly before this country was called America. How much before? I'd be guessing.
Dang, that's a big tree.
Or a hobbit-lass on her pony :-) Still, it's a big tree.
I wonder if there's a way to tell without injuring the tree.
There sure is; use a tool called an increment borer. You screw a long tube into the tree and with an extractor pull out a small diameter coring. The rings can then be counted. The core can be saved or put back into the tree, hole sealed up and the tree is none the worse for the experience. You can gather a lot of information on the tree's growth rate and infer climate or weather conditions during the tree's life to that point. Since I doubt a borer is made long enough to reach the center of the tree, you'd take a sample boring, up to several feet long, measure growth rate and infer the age.
Thanks for the sad info in 477, 2J. Wish it were not so. We still fly the flag from those guys on special occasions.
Good Saturday morning to you Sam.
Not sure what's in store for today... maybe another walk :~)
5 years, wow. Who'd have thunk it.
Mornin'...
gots to get movin. Gots to go shoppin. get clothes.
[sip]
Dad's coming up tonight to stay over, talk about boats, and go to the boat show tomorrow. Hmm... better do some cleanups...
Really! Huh! Think you'll buy this year, or just more talk ;~)?
You're not watching the game?
dunno... probly just more talk. :-)
Then I'll go out and get a boat that he can borrow.
I'll definitely be watching. Should be a GREAT game!
That sounds like a plan that could work :~)
I hope they actually show it here. I've got Woody Durham's play-by-play on the internet just in case.
Hi Hair. Not much going on here. Put new batteries in my truck. The last ones lasted 7 years, which is shocking.
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