Comments on: If life hands you a tree make tree-ade

By: Garden Shed

Garden Shed — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:03:23 +0000

At least you can replace the garden shed but the tree is gone forever. I lost a tree a few weeks ago when we had a storm so i know how you are feeling.

By: rjleaman

rjleaman — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:08:25 +0000

Ouch! Let’s see… hmmm, bright sides to this… Okay, it didn’t fall on people or on your house; firewood and firewood-related income potential; more sunlight with less tree; great photo opp and material for a blog post; plus, you get an excuse to re-build – the shed of your dreams, perhaps?

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By: Joy

Joy — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:49:11 +0000

Bothering trees but pretty cool captures. I like the concept of your post.

By: JoLynn Braley

JoLynn Braley — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:33:44 +0000

Hi Trisha, hope all goes well with this, and like some of the others my first thought was "cut it up for firewood!". I didn't think of selling it but you could probably get a good amt of $$ for it, cords of wood are way too expensive. JoLynn Braleys last blog post: My 6 Day Mini Makeover Experiment Update

By: Tricia

Tricia — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:51:55 +0000

This is definitely tree-ade. More than the great pictures, I appreciate the great attitude! Tricias last blog post: A Hypocrite’s View of Leaving Home

By: David

David — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:10:21 +0000

TO the person who had the ENORMOUS oak tree fall on their fence: cut it and sell it as fire wood. You may make more than enough to pay for the fence.

By: judy haley (coffeejitters)

judy haley (coffeejitters) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:06:36 +0000

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By: judy haley (coffeejitters)

judy haley (coffeejitters) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:50:10 +0000

oh ouch! I think the tree-ade is the fact that it’s not your house.

Well that, and if you have a fireplace, there’s no need to buy firewood.

Might be time to get a specialist in there to see if there are any other trees that need to be taken care of before they fall too.

By: DazzlinDonna

DazzlinDonna — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:10:29 +0000

Now would be a good time to think about planting some sort of nice ground cover to help with the erosion problem. Pretty…and functional.

By: Trisha

Trisha — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:43:59 +0000

Well, there is a creek behind our house and it rained a lot last night and this whole year and the tree has been leaning for a while due to the excess rain and the erosion from the creek around it. We knew it would happen eventually.

We have been planning to put a fence up too, so at least we didn’t have it yet or it would have been damaged too.

The worst part is really that the tree was keeping the erosion along the creek in check a bit, now we will have a much worse problem.

I don’t know that the tree falling will help the garden any. My husband is trying to come home from work early to start cleaning it up and I just hope none of his tomato plants got their stems broke off. And we had a big pumpkin under there some where, I hope it is ok. His peppers are more to the front, so I think they are alright. He had some really good beans growing in the back too that could have been damaged.

It looks like my newly-installed comment luv plugin is working on some posts – didn’t pick up Donna’s for some reason.