I'm hoping to do a better job of updating this blog, at least for the next few days. There are some notable events that need to be documented, mostly for my benefit. I went to our kitchen calendar and made a list of the items we had marked to remind me of what has happened lately.
Late in April a major storm roared through the Jackson, Ms area. There were 5 tornadoes officially reported, causing extensive damage to many areas. The storms were not so strong to be deadly and devastating, but more widespread and destructive to property than usual.
We were not completely spared, as one of the many huge pine trees behind the house was blown toward the house but was caught in the upper limbs of other trees. The situation was dangerous, since a subsequent moderately windy storm could easily cause the tree to fall onto the house.
To the rescue comes my brother with his years of knowledge and cool equipment, climbing 60, 80 feet into the treetops, fastening ropes to trunks, over limbs, down to an anchor point, and the two of us lowered a huge tree to the ground in pieces, neat as sausage links.
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