Monday July 28 2008

Joe Cut Down our Dying Pine Tree Today

Loading the Lopped Off Limbs


Dragging it away with a chain

Demise of a Friend

Beverly and Gloria packed up their suitcases and left this morning about 8:30. They will drive back to Salt Lake and both have evening flights. Before they left they took the sheets off their beds and got laundry started. We sure had a nice time together. I'm trying not to be depressed that they are gone, but I will miss them. Our trips were wonderful. My head is full of all the beautiful scenes we saw together.

Well I've told you how lots of our pine trees around the area are dying. I am sad to see so many dead trees through all the country we traveled. This morning Joe cut down our big lodgepole pine in the front yard. It was all brown and dying. He used the chain saw, and had me push it over the right direction as he made the final cut. Then he tied it to a chain and hauled it away. It looks pretty empty in that spot, but not all that bad either. It was the demise of a friend that offered us shade and a sheltering presence. Many times the dogs would lay under its branches on a hot day, or friends would gather in lawn chairs beneath it. We still have the smaller one which may not be infected. Or we may loose it too. We brought them both home from our headgate in the foothills and planted them about 25 years ago.

Tis the season of those tiny flying "bugs" that are so small they can come right in through the screens and leave their dead bodies all over every level surface or hopping around like fleas if still alive. All the light fixtures get full of them. They will bite too.

This morning I weeded around some of the shrubs and those look lots better. I'll make up the beds, do more laundry, and water my flowers and plants. Tomorrow is chemo treatment day again. So I plan to meet the shuttle. I have to call Oncology to find out where to meet it this time.

Check back in a few days for the two blogs which are missing!