Maxmosbey
Final Approach
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- Aug 23, 2007
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- San Juan, PR/Ames, IA
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I need to get serious.
Last year I called Matt and had him come over to look at my trees, which were pretty shaggy. If anyone doesn't know, that is what Matt does for a living. I know, most of us think that he flies gliders for a living, but that is just his hobby. He actually has a real job. He took a look at them and said that they were pretty bad, and that if I didn't do something and a good storm came along I would end up with some limbs on my house. Or something like that anyway. He said that he could trim them up so that wouldn't happen. So he went to work on them and when he got done they looked good.
OK, so now this weekend we were up North at Clear Lake camping. It was beautiful weather where we were. We were out bicycling and having a ball, but Sunday morning my daughter called up all excited. Big storm in Ames. Trees down everywhere. Neighbor next door has a huge maple on the ground. Neighbor across the street has four trees uprooted, and one on his roof. Neighbor down the street has one on the ground and most of the limbs tore off another. No power anywhere. The neighborhood looks like a battle zone. Trees split in half right down the middle. I asked her how we were, and she said that we had one limb down but it didn't cause any other damage.
We came back that afternoon, and when we turned on our street things looked pretty bad. As I approached my place anticipating anything, there was nothing. I looked around. All my trees were fine. There were leaves and twigs all over the place, but no limbs on the ground. Finally I saw one two inch limb hanging up in one of the trees. Nothing more. My neighbor saw me looking up in the tree and came over. He asked me how bad I got hit. I showed him the limb, and he asked me if that was it. I told him that was it. He couldn't believe it. He walked around my yard trying to find something that I might have missed. It took me ten minutes with a hand saw to get it down. Good job Matt.
OK, so now this weekend we were up North at Clear Lake camping. It was beautiful weather where we were. We were out bicycling and having a ball, but Sunday morning my daughter called up all excited. Big storm in Ames. Trees down everywhere. Neighbor next door has a huge maple on the ground. Neighbor across the street has four trees uprooted, and one on his roof. Neighbor down the street has one on the ground and most of the limbs tore off another. No power anywhere. The neighborhood looks like a battle zone. Trees split in half right down the middle. I asked her how we were, and she said that we had one limb down but it didn't cause any other damage.
We came back that afternoon, and when we turned on our street things looked pretty bad. As I approached my place anticipating anything, there was nothing. I looked around. All my trees were fine. There were leaves and twigs all over the place, but no limbs on the ground. Finally I saw one two inch limb hanging up in one of the trees. Nothing more. My neighbor saw me looking up in the tree and came over. He asked me how bad I got hit. I showed him the limb, and he asked me if that was it. I told him that was it. He couldn't believe it. He walked around my yard trying to find something that I might have missed. It took me ten minutes with a hand saw to get it down. Good job Matt.
