Thoughts While Cutting Up A Tree That Fell From My Yard Onto The Neighbor's Driveway

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Nov 19, 2024

On Monday a super short but insanely violent storm hit my house and knocked down a tree from my front yard. I didn’t notice for about two hours, as soon as I did I took my 18 volt Ryobi polesaw and decided to try and cut it up and move it out of my neighbors driveway. This is because I’m a very good neighbor, and not at all cus my neighbors are a more than a little bit problematic.

It took about two and a half a hours not counting the time it took to recharge my 3 batteries when I ran through the juice on all of them. Here are some thoughts I had during the process:

That damn storm really came outta nowhere. This is gonna take forever. Can’t believe this tree fell down, stupid tree. Well it actually had lost a few limbs in the last actual big storm we had last year…so maybe it was just hanging on to life.
I wish I had a real chainsaw, that had batteries that lost more than 15 minutes.
I should probably wear safety glasses…..at least I’m wearing gloves.
How long would it take to just burn this felled tree down? Would I get in trouble with the Ents for doing that? When Treebeard says “you should not be waking, eat earth, dig deep, drink water, go to sleep.” in the movies it’s really a line that Tom Bombadil says in the books, but Tom wasn’t in the movies. He’s in the Rings of Power Amazon show and he says that in it, but none of that is canon. At least I’m not sure if it is.
I hope this tree didn’t suffer.
It’s kinda cool that I at least have a physical obstacle/task that I’m slowly chipping away at. So much of the work I’m involved in otherwise is not physical. It’s not “real” in that way. I can’t see the impact of it in the real world, the heft and mass of it in my hands, in my back as I carry it to the curb. Slowly making an impact and seeing the pile grow in my curb. It’s really sort of rewarding.
It’s sort of concerning that the Mavs played so well without Luka. Sure Chet Holmgren also didn’t play but removing the star player from the team shouldn’t be THAT positive. I hope it’s not something bigger…
Why are so many people addicted to Coke Zero or Diet Coke but never both?
I hate owning a house, I wouldn’t have to deal with this crap if this wasn’t my house. It’s not even my house, I still have more than 25 years left of paying on this thing. Oh God when will it end. What if I get fired? What if everything hits the fan in the next four years and I actually don’t even ever get to pay it off cus I get sent to some labor camp? What if nothing happens? I still have to pay this thing, and Next year some other tree will probably fall and I have to deal with that. The damn fence is falling apart too I gotta deal with that. I miss apartments where I didn’t even have to take trash out to the dumpster or the curb. Who the hell knows what’s gonna happen next year. I should probably start carrying around my passport, but what if I lose it. I don’t lose my wallet, but still it’s not a passport. I hope the worst doesn’t happen. Damn that’s a lot of wood dust? Saw dust. That’s a lot of Saw dust on the driveway.
I bet that looked cool (when I carried a large chunk of heavy thick trunk and shot putted it)
I bet that looked cool (when I tire flipped a large chunk of trunk to get it out of my neighbor’s driveway)
I wish I had a blower so I don’t have to sweep this.
Can’t believe the US Military was protecting poppy fields in Afghanistan during the occupation over there and no one made a big deal out of it.
I hope this tree doesn’t die.
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I’d been on Bluesky since the beta back in July of last year and was hoping that it would take off. It looks like it’s doing so, slowly. At the very least posting has been fun again. You should join it and post some fun there. Especially cus we need more raza. Here’s some fun posts from the last few weeks: