Sat, 05 Mar 2005
Uh oh... // at 23:59
Seems we've had a few too many storms recently. The combination of
high winds, rain, and loose, sandy soil doesn't agree with the 6m tall
peppermint gum in the backgarden. Jo looked out the window this
morning and realised that it is now leaning over at about 30° from the
vertical, and dangerously close to pressing on the shed. A quick
check back through some of my photos to when we moved here in October
and we wondered how we hadn't noticed sooner! Will it fall down and
destroy the shed? Will it fall down and destroy the fence? Should we
remove it?
The temporary solution was to cut off all the branches on the downwind side, and hope that the rest of the tree would not lean any further
Other than that, the weather made stepping out the house unpleasant and unlikely, so we stayed indoors and tried to put some order to the mayhem that is the front room — too much stuff and too little space is the fundamental problem! All those pieces of computers and electronics; they might come in handy some day...
