Woodman spare that tree

Shortly after we moved into this house in January, a man from the electric company came by and said that one of our trees needed to be taken down, because in the case of a big storm it might fall and take down some power lines.

During cyclone Yasi, January 2011

Well it seemed no later than he made that pronouncement, and painted a big "R" on the side of the tree on the palm on the right (R meaning remove, we imagined), in came a BIG cyclone, the biggest our town had seen in a century.

If it had hit us, as was projected, it would have been a category 5 (very, very bad), but it passed north of us, and was only (ONLY) a cat 3-4 when it got to our place. Our palm swayed and groaned and dropped palm fronds, but restrained itself from falling on the powerlines.

Other trees around town were not so lucky.

Finally, the tree man came today to take down the unlucky palm.

Bryn says "what can we do with all this stuff, we could make a fort!"