Computer is sick

My home pc has a virus...... I spent last night copying photo files to CD.

I'll not post til I get it fixed at home.

I gotta go, Carlo

Later May

Quick update on "the tree". Amazing how much post mileage I can get out of one incident, hey? Onlyhow, I saw this spook up in the tree on day. Or is it some incarnation of Kokopelli? I can't say....


So here we are, all set for the felling. I hooked this rope to the tree so it could not head for the deck in the event the truck of the tree is too rotten and it is hard to control. I'm thinking now that if the tree decided to head South, the rope probably would not hold it. Hmmm....








So the tree hit the ground as planned and I cut it up. Doesn't seem like I'll be able to split it with the maul, I tried with no luck.
I went flying this evening, and I could have used a photographer on board. The poplar trees are such a luscious light green right now. The hardwoods are either in bud or with tiny leaves, a darker background for the almost luminous poplars. I got the chance to play fire pilot tonight!




This is not the fire I'm referring to, but a rubbish fire in the neighbor's field a couple of years ago. John took the photo. Anyway, there was a big smoke just west of Phillips this evening. I flew toward it, descended to about 600' above the ground and circled the burn. Looked like someone readying the land for clearing. As I circled the fire, I got into a bunch of wood smoke... just like I was working the forest fires out west. I wondered if everyone makes up junk like that when they're doing something. I bet they do, just don't admit it? Oh, well.
We're heading for Milwaukee for the weekend, will try to get some pics of Hailee and others.

The last couple of posts were done with the photos centered, making it so much easier to fit the text. I inadvertantly used the old 'left, right' method in this post, but I think I'll go back to the centered method.

It's been three years now since I started this blog. Who would have thought it would have lasted this long?

I gotta go, Carlo

Update:

I wish I could figure out how to have this thing work on this blog so you folks that want to contribute money to the Ottertail could do so easily......



Caught in the act, I should have hidden the camera.... I kept thinking, "do not saw between the ladder and the trunk....".





Relax, I'm not sawing off my support limb! It's really on the other side.








I quit because this storm front was moving in. Weird lighting, but it looked really neat out there.





The weather chased me away from the outdoor work, so I had to go into the house and have a bevvy.... as Onslow would say. We watched Onslow and Daisy's grand-daughter's christening on the telly tonight. I think that's one of their best episodes. It's the "Keeping Up Appearances" series, and it's a riot.

I gotta go, Carlo