Just checked the weather - they updated it to add showers/storms for my area this afternoon.
Terrific. Uncle!
We have no rain in the forecast for today and fingers crossed, tomorrow too. The huge hickory tree is being dismantled as I type. This one I’m guessing is over a hundred years old. The base diameter is about 3.5 to 4 feet wide. It’s a beautiful tree but rotten about 15’ up. You can see water poring through it in the back side when it rains. It’s on a hillside, so the roots aren’t so good. Very dangerous.
This may be a two day project. The tree guy asked if he could use some of the garden space underneath it for setting down the larger parts of the trunk. That means after the guys in the one grappler truck are finished that I have to start digging out any shrubs I want to try to save, like a brunnera, a bleeding heart, a peony, and a meadow rue. It will be too sunny over in the meditation garden after this. I may have to change the name from meditation garden because it won’t be a shady spot anymore.
I’ve requested for the hickory to not be cut all the way down, so that I can use the top of what’s left as a planter for annuals. They are cutting down the larger pieces into 15-16” slices so that hubby and I can split soon, and get it seasoning for firewood in another year.
Me too (showers). The forecasters had taken them out of the forecast, now they are back “in”. Every day in our 7-day forecast has at least a 20% chance, and the last few days, every day we had even a 10% chance, we got at least a hard (if only 15 minute) thundershower.