Parson Weems may have gotten his story wrong, but I sure didn’t. Ever since I started my veggie garden I have been dealing with areas that don’t get the full sun I need. This is chiefly due mainly to two main culprits: a good-sized juniper tree at the west end of my garden and my mortal enemy neighbor’s fifth-wheel trailer. For years now, I have been cursing both of them but since I can’t (legally) chop down my neighbor’s trailer, I CAN cut down the tree, which I finally did this weekend.
I do not have a chainsaw, so I borrowed one from my friend Vance (who was currently borrowing it from a friend of his). So he and the chainsaw came over on Saturday afternoon and we set to work. The chain was really dull so it was taking quite a while, so when we came to the bigger parts, I decided to head on over and get a new chain. MAN, that makes a big difference. It cut like butter after that.
Viola! One step closer to ‘full sun’ and now I have a good amount of fire wood for later in the year and I can add the wood ashes back into my compost pile! Now, what will the future hold for the trailer?
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