The Conservative Cave
Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on August 24, 2011, 03:37:09 PM
-
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1807068
Oh my.
Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Wed Aug-24-11 03:31 PM
Original message
A sad day here today
Our back yard has always been graced with a beautiful, stately American Elm. It was a big tree and covered nearly half the yard. It prevented our growing a garden, but it more than made up for that in its sheer beauty and dappled shade.
Right after full leafing this sprint, it was obvious the tree was sick. An arborist gave us the bad news. Dutch Elm Disease.
Today, a crew took the tree down.
It is estimated to have been eighty years old.
Yeah, I know. Its just a tree.
after which a photograph of a tree
after which another photograph of a tree
"dappled shade"--I'll have to steal that, and use it sometime. "dappled shade."
It's actually pretty good.
Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Wed Aug-24-11 03:38 PM
Response to Reply #3
7. Someone theorized that this elm was one of the ones that had some natural immunity
We knew it was an elm when we bought the house. I had it checked out way back in 1980. It was given a clean bill of health. At the time, there was a theory that some American elms had a natural immunity. A lot of elms were lost here, too, at about that same time. That this one survived was at least worth noting.
Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Wed Aug-24-11 03:43 PM
Response to Reply #6
12. I've been on the deck overlooking the yard all day . . . reminiscing, actually.
I was seeing my sons as little kids in snowsuits as we brought home our first Border Collie and she herded them, their mother, and me ever closer into the tree. There was snow on the ground and we were having a snowball fight and the dog was all excited. Soon enough, we were all shoulder to shoulder at the trunk of the tree.
For the next few years, until my boys were older, she continued to herd them that way.
It kinda feels a little like a wake here today.
The view off the deck is so dramatically different, even though the tree was pretty much leafless.
Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Wed Aug-24-11 03:59 PM
Response to Reply #15
22. Yeah, it is all wooded around here, so it still looks very green and always will
We lost an old oak last year, but it was no big deal. Just the cost of having it cut and hauled away.
-
The BFEE, attacking liberals' trees since the 1950's.
-
The BFEE, attacking liberals' trees since the 1950's.
By the way, when I was over on Skins's island, I noticed Vinnie used the word "shoe-in" at some campfire there.
I figured I was seeing things, and moved on.
Now I'm starting to wonder; did Vinnie actually spell it "shoe-in"? Does anybody remember?
-
I was seeing my sons as little kids in snowsuits as we brought home our first Border Collie and she herded them, their mother, and me ever closer into the tree. There was snow on the ground and we were having a snowball fight and the dog was all excited. Soon enough, we were all shoulder to shoulder at the trunk of the tree.
Awwwww, that's actually a sweet memory that many people can relate to.
-
By the way, when I was over on Skins's island, I noticed Vinnie used the word "shoe-in" at some campfire there.
I figured I was seeing things, and moved on.
Now I'm starting to wonder; did Vinnie actually spell it "shoe-in"? Does anybody remember?
I thought it was Nads who spelled it wrong?
-
Go out and buy another tree. I'm sure there's some kind of welfare exploit they can use to do this.
-
Yeah, sniff/sniff I lost all my elm trees too Dutch elm disease too ....except the one that was hit by the pickup truck 3 times. It had no bark on one side from the ground to head high. It was as healthy as it could be. ...until hurricane Hugo blew it down.
-
Stinky The Clown
We knew it was an elm when we bought the house.
husb2sparkly is claiming to know how to look at a tree's leaves and bark and to be able to tell what kind it is. He must be some type of sooper geene-us.
.
-
By the way, when I was over on Skins's island, I noticed Vinnie used the word "shoe-in" at some campfire there.
I figured I was seeing things, and moved on.
Now I'm starting to wonder; did Vinnie actually spell it "shoe-in"? Does anybody remember?
I spelled it as, shoe in, when I was mocking Nadin, wonder if he got it from me. :-)
-
husb2sparkly is claiming to know how to look at a tree's leaves and bark and to be able to tell what kind it is. He must be some type of sooper geene-us.
.
We were taught in junior high to identify trees by their leaves.
-
We were taught in junior high to identify trees by their leaves.
Yep, but granddad taught me while squirrel hunting when I was elementary school age.
-
We were taught in junior high to identify trees by their leaves.
Pushed up my first tree with a bulldozer when I was 6 years old. Been pushing them up ever since. There are a few you can identify by smell. "Horse piss" smell, it's a red oak, a real nice, sweet smell that cover acres, it is, or was, a sassafras... :-)
-
Number one:
The Larch
The Larch
-
Boo Hoo! I lost all my oak trees to a chainsaw and woodstove!
-
I don't think Stinky's smart enough to own a Border Collie. I have a Border Collie/Australian Shepherd mix and she requires constant stimulation. That's pretty hard to do when your wife sends you to the basement all the time.
Cindie
-
Somewhere in the Akashic there is a rule that says this video must be played. In memoriam. Not safe for anything.
[youtube=425,350]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElJFYwRtrH4[/youtube]
-
I can sympathize on this one. Had a sugar maple in the yard growing up. Climbed up it. Had a tree house in it. Had a swing under it. Put up a hammock under it. Had picnics under it. Camped out under it in the summer. Got maple syrup out of it. Played with the little helicopter things in the fall. Put a GI Joe base in it. Got laid under it back in high school. The whole nine yards.
It died about 7 years ago. I felt like I was cutting down an old friend. :bawl: :bawl: :bawl:
-
By the way, when I was over on Skins's island, I noticed Vinnie used the word "shoe-in" at some campfire there.
I figured I was seeing things, and moved on.
Now I'm starting to wonder; did Vinnie actually spell it "shoe-in"? Does anybody remember?
He did, and he responded with a snarl when another DUmmy corrected him. His thread then devolved into
a succession of DUmbasses mocking him.
SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-23-11 11:29 AM
Response to Reply #4
29. Beat me to it
that one's right up there with:
Cow-tow & Tow the line
-
Somewhere in the Akashic there is a rule that says this video must be played. In memoriam. Not safe for anything.
[youtube=425,350]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElJFYwRtrH4[/youtube]
After watching that I found this.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIULIJxVr7A&feature=related[/youtube]
-
I don't think Stinky's smart enough to own a Border Collie. I have a Border Collie/Australian Shepherd mix and she requires constant stimulation. That's pretty hard to do when your wife sends you to the basement all the time.
Cindie
Hell, Sparkly probably has the dog send the dood down to the basement for her. :tongue:
Hey, dood . . . :bird: :-)
-
Stinkdude can go piss up a rope. The entire area I live in lost trees and had major property damage this past week from two storms that came through here. Several large shade trees lost either large limbs or were taken out. Sorry bitch but your one tree just doesn't quite begin to move the "Give a Damn " needle.
-
Stinkdude can go piss up a rope. The entire area I live in lost trees and had major property damage this past week from two storms that came through here. Several large shade trees lost either large limbs or were taken out. Sorry bitch but your one tree just doesn't quite begin to move the "Give a Damn " needle.
Here in this area we have these odd trees called horse chestnuts. These son of a guns grow huge and drop their fruit that is a wonder of what to do with them. Round or oblong brown nuts with a outside like a porcupine.
Story is back in the 1600 the wealthy brought these trees from England. For some reason the wealthy convinced the early settlers that to be given a seed was an honor, no money for helping them out just this seed.
We have these trees the gift from the Crown everywhere, my mom has an ancient tree on her property, someone in the family must have been stupid to except a damn seed pod instead of money.
Apple trees planted by my fathers grandmother with stood some interesting history, they lived while generations died in wars or civil upheaval. They stood guard at the front of the house as the inhabits were born and died. We the family never noticed their struggle to survive, every year they put forth blossoms and apples mid summer.
Finally as all things die or change, a couple of years ago the trees gave up the ghost and in a storm died, just collapsed against the house.
Trees are a symbol of long life, strength, and have given us the material to build a civilization from scratch.
In the Great Lakes we find timber that has rested on the bed of the lake for 200 years-------- Any idea what one board foot costs to buy from the selvages?????
-
Here in this area we have these odd trees called horse chestnuts. These son of a guns grow huge and drop their fruit that is a wonder of what to do with them. Round or oblong brown nuts with a outside like a porcupine.
You're supposed to play conkers with them, or at least one is supposed to when one is a schoolboy...
The brown nut inside the prickly seed-pod is called a conker; one drills a hole through it, passes some thick string through and secures it with a couple of knots. Then the two players take it in turn to try and obliterate each others' conker; one of them holds his conker dangling freely on the end of the string, while the other uses the string to flick his conker at his opponent's. The winner is the one whose conker doesn't smash.
Of course, these days children would probably be expelled from school for playing such a violent game...or litigious parents would sue to school for mental damage or such...
-
After watching that I found this.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIULIJxVr7A&feature=related[/youtube]
That is the best response I have seen!
^5
-
Yup, ^5 for CJ, on the find.
vesta111
Hero Member
Here in this area we have these odd trees called horse chestnuts. These son of a guns grow huge and drop their fruit that is a wonder of what to do with them. Round or oblong brown nuts with a outside like a porcupine.
Those nuts, were sling-shot ammo.
Done that. :-)
-
Yup, ^5 for CJ, on the find.
Those nuts, were sling-shot ammo.
Done that. :-)
They are also a delicacy for whitetail deer and black bears . . .
-
Nobody feels any sympathy for the DUde? I'm just happy Sparkly let him into the back yard once in a while to view the tree. Probably throwing out the used cat litter or something...
-
Nobody feels any sympathy for the DUde? I'm just happy Sparkly let him into the back yard once in a while to view the tree. Probably throwing out the used cat litter or something...
I've always wondered what people in congested urban areas did with used cat-litter.
Of course, I spent many years, decades, living in congested urban areas, but I never had a cat at the time, and didn't pay attention to what those with cats did.
Out here, the whole wide world's outdoor sanitary facilities for the cats, until the snow comes.
During the winter, when the cats are naturally inside this big old house nearly all the time, I use cat-litter made of only baked clay, no chemicals in it, and when the boxes need emptied, I merely walk out the back door or the front door, and fling it upon the snow at some random place.
As gross as this might seem, the extreme cold and the extreme hot of the Sandhills "breaks it up" rather quickly, and contrary to popular wisdom, used cat-litter makes excellent fertilizer, as the foliage around this place demonstrates.