Playing Paul Bunyan

Posted in ice storm on February 9th, 2009 by Don

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I traveled to our summer home in Northwest Arkansas on Saturday where I got intimate with this chainsaw, which I borrowed from a friend. The Epic Ice Storm of 2009 left our back yard a disaster area. Just wanting to get some limbs down that were leaning on the house, I told myself I’d run one tank of gas and then quit. It turns out that chainsaws get good gas mileage.

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The Ice Storm Cameth

Posted in Arkansas, ice storm on January 30th, 2009 by Don

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A trip to our house in Johnson (between Springdale and Fayetteville) confirmed the reports I had gotten: The Epic Ice Storm of 2009 devastated our backyard trees and caused minor damage to the house. A couple of the trees looked like they have enough branches remaining to make a lopsided recovery, so I guess that’s good. And the shed that sits amongst the trees appeared to have not been hit at all. Limbs and branches surround it like it was protected by an invisible force field.

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