Friday, March 19, 2010

How's My Hair?


The music of chainsaws fills the air every day now, and will for some time to come.
It was a week ago already, that mighty wind on Saturday. It took down half a dozen 30- to 40-foot evergreens around the block, but spared us any harm. A gigantic branch from a neighbor's tree broke off and fell onto our garage roof, but remained supported by a lower limb, so the roof was undamaged. Our good ol' brother-in-law Newman came over with a power tool; he and Ken climbed onto the garage roof, and I stayed inside and kept them from falling off by concentrating very, very hard. I did not take pictures of that. We did lose a piece of downspout,(I think) and/or a length of leader pipe from the gutters. Something unexciting like that.
Elsewhere, just across the street and down the block, there was much more damage:







I think contractors and landscapers will have a very good season this year.

Monday, March 1, 2010

Pointless

The March March March has been undertaken undertaken (almost) every year since 1979, by people in the town of March, in Cambridgeshire, for no reason other than to refer to it as the March March March.