Tractor is good for making a pasture, but I love the forest and the woods. We have a nice paddock or small pasture from equine Rosie and Tobacco, who we loved but had to find good homes for when Jake broke his back and had all that medal put in 2 steel rods, 6 nuts, bolts and 3 cages inside his spine. Which took him years to get use to. He still has pain from it. But the pain pill 'remedy' was worse than the injury. No pain meds since Jan.2019, thank God!
After we got the full blunt of Hurricane Helene, 'minus the ocean currents' 140mph winds we now have lots of hanging tree limbs and leaning trees to watch out for when cutting vines. You never know when under trees how little it can take to bring one down on you,' like the one from Helene that busted open Jakes head'. Yesterday we dealt with several tree limbs swinging on vines, we carefully brought down. Also now you can see the sky through the woods we never could see before. Storm really did a number on our trees as if they needed any more damage to go along with the vines killing them. Jake has photos on his thread 'Thinking Things Would Slow Down' page 34. Most people who move here or anywhere wooded clear out the forest and kill the trees so they can have acre's of grass planted to mow. I can understand pastures for livestock or ranch animals. But then I grew up running through the forest when I wasn't running the streets of Atlanta to theatres or big city parks. Those days came to a halt when I hit 13.
I feel very tired, but there is a tree I wanted to clear yesterday that is full of vines, Jake is helping me some now so since neither of us slept all week, maybe we can partial clear some at least. Or we can sit on porch and smoke damn cigarettes. We're back. Amazing what we got done in just over an hour, Jake said, 'you about done, you said just a few minutes'. He was just wanting a cigarette , I reminded him, being up all night he had plenty. The frontage is looking so different now.