We experienced kind of a minor ice storm, but it made the hills in our neighborhood into perfect sled runs. The highest hill was so fast we saw two major sled crashes in two days. Abby and I are good enough to avoid crashing.
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.
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.