This pile of limbs is what sits on the highway as we pull out of our subdivision. We were hopeful it would be removed quickly because it blocks our view of oncoming traffic to get out of the subdivision. But after a week of the big, black trucks being in town - it still sits there.
This is what the streets look like ALL over our city. You don't go a block without seeing limbs or even entire trees cut up and placed beside the road.
This is one big pile that nearly blocks the house of the yard where it sits.
And I know, you've all been dying to know about my poor trees. LOL The weekend after the ice storm, Kevin staked them up and had them nearly perfectly straight. Then the wind came. The tree on the right was nearly all the way back to the ground. The wind almost pulled the stakes completly up. So he drove the stakes back in and got them pulled back up, but not as well. We are going to have to redo the stakes and rope, but every weekend it's cold and rainy here and he hasn't been able to get outside and do anything. Now, the snow is taking its tole. The weight of the snow is really causing them to bend again and we're not sure they can take much more. I would really like to try to save them, but it may be a lost cause. Again, they are already calling for us to have rain all weekend. Part of the problem is also that the ground is so wet, the stakes have nothing to hold onto. So we'll just see what we can do and in the spring we may just be planting new, smaller trees.
Oh - and bring on spring. I'm ready for flip-flops, capris and time outside to play.
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