Today Darrell and I spent the day helping our friend Peter cut down a dead 40 foot tall magnolia tree. Peter and Corinne Jorgensen are fellow faculty members with Nancy at FSU. They live on Lake Talquin - about 20 miles west of town. The magnolia tree was threatening the neighbor's boat house - and even in the land of treehuggers - the tree had to go.
Notice that Peter did the tree climbing this time - using the tree stirrups. Peter has a degree in forestry - and he climbs like he knows what he is doing. On the ground - Darrell and I manned the ropes - pulling the tree this way and that way. Finally down it went - into the water - and clearing the boat house by about 20 feet. After the tree was down - we all helped cutting it up and getting it out of the water.
After the job - Corinne served us lunch including a home baked three berry pie with ice cream. Also Peter gave us rides on his Chinese motorcycle that is a replica of a Russian motorcycle that is a knock off of a BMW 41. You can see by the pictures that we enjoyed the sidecar more than cutting down the tree. It was hot - in the mid 90s.
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