Tiiiiiimbeeeeer!!!

At last!!
The final trees have come down (sob)
Really sad to see these behemoths go but also relieved as its done and things are safer now

As usual… it was an amazing process to watch

Nice of the farmer not to mind us using his paddock and wrecking his/our fence

The colour and grain is wonderful.. as is the smell!

Happily this time the tree guy has a big chipper, so instead of spending an eon on the cleaning up process, we were able to pay extra for them to just throw it in the hungry machine and spit the mulch back over to us.
Much better as I didn’t want a long clean up process when its someone elses property

I can now mulch everything in sight…

(Yes, I will need to let it sit a while before it goes on gardens but on the paths it will be great)

And down comes the biggest tree! She made a massive thump – really gets into the heart of you!
On a happier note, in her next life she will be a cubby house for kids as that is the one the tree-guy wants to mill for himself.

So now we have to sort out the milling and who wants what as well as cut the rest into firewood.
Not to mention fix the fence!!

I have more photos, but not processed yet… also want to get up on the stumps to take an overall shot.

I’ve been out of action a bit.
Somehow I got some allergy which manifested as a full body rash.
And itchy. Super itchy…
Here is my very non-sexy-leg as an example:

Have tried to pinpoint the culprit so I know to set it on fire and never go near it or eat it again… but I truly am clueless.
As well as the antihistamines and creams, the doc put me on steroids for a couple of days to calm my immune system down.

You know…I’ve done survival training at Jervis Bay in winter – one of those nights stands out as my most uncomfortable and miserable night ever.
Now it has been shuffled back to second place after last night!
It was insane! Imagine wearing a full body jumpsuit made of that itchy wool right against your skin. Like mini pins and needles and itchy. (Did I mention itchy??)

I managed to sleep maybe one hour, got up at 7am to gobble down the drugs, nearly passed out before I could so went back to lie down until I was able to get the pills and a banana to have something in my stomach… eventually I was able to sleep properly. Jeff woke me at 3pm, so I didn’t get much out of the day.

I am still sitting here past midnight as I am not keen to go back to bed to revisit that whole thing.

Hopefully by tomorrow I will look less like I have the measles!!!

On a brighter note… I am getting some tomatoes. I had some on toast with basil and my garlic salt and it was very much the days highlight!

Hope everyone is well and less itchy than me!
Cheers,