This tree saw the snow turn back to rain.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Category: A Daily Tree
Caveat: Tree #764
This tree saw the rain had turned to snow.
[daily log: walking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #763
This tree saw fast-rushing water over ice.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #762
This tree stood aside for a frozen waterfall.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #761
This tree presented its silhouette to the road.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #760
This tree celebrated Presidents Day.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km]
Caveat: Tree #759
This tree found itself upstaged by an icicle I propped up on some rocks.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #758
This tree overlooked a patented pile o’ rocks.
[daily log: walking, 2km; disassembling things on a steep hillside in the cold, 5hr]
Caveat: Tree #757
This tree, which has a nascent treehouse attached to it, was making alarming creaking noises in the high winds. The treehouse seemed to remain attached, however.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km]
Caveat: Tree #756
This tree caught my storage tent as high winds tried to blow it away.
My pre-fab storage tent (the “studio”) had come unanchored a few weeks ago, on a windy day. It hadn’t been well-anchored in the first place, so I admit that was my fault. I set out on a project to build a proper foundation for it. That project was progressing slowly, partly due to the cold temperatures, which have been making the ground too frozen to dig easily. And meanwhile, the storage tent was even more poorly anchored than before – with pollyannaish optimism I’d placed some 2×4’s on the corners with piles of rocks, to hold it down. The wind today decided that was inadequate. And so now… what will become of this beloved storage tent?
I’ve tied the upside-down and somewhat damaged storage tent to the tree the wind had attached it to. I’ll wait for a less windy day (the wind today was pushing windchills close to 0°F), and begin to disassemble it, as best I can, hoping to be able to salvage and re-build it on the new foundation, once that’s complete. Meanwhile I’ve laid a tarp over the stuff that had been inside it, that was exposed… with many rocks to hold that tarp down.
I went to town today and got my first Covid vaccination. That was without incident. I got the “Moderna” vaccine, same as Arthur received in January.
I’m beginning to feel a bit overwhelmed. I feel the gods are testing me: The server crash; the wind tearing down my storage tent; Arthur’s obstreperousness and denialism (esp. with respect to hearing loss).
[daily log: walking, 3.5km]
Caveat: Tree #755
This tree, though a bit blurry due to distance, clearly has an infestation of eagles.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #754
This tree is a bit abstract, but there, under CGroup, you see a small “tree” showing the spawned process that is the mysql instance that makes this blog work.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 4hr]
Caveat: Tree #753
This tree and its friends watched the snow fall.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #752
This tree seems brighter than the others.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
Caveat: Tree #751
This tree stood around, refusing to help, while I dug holes in mud and rocks for the piers which will support my rectangle.
[daily log: walking, 2km; pickaxing mud and rocks, 2hr]
Caveat: Tree #750
This tree hangs around.
[daily log: walking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #749
This tree was along the westbound road.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #748
This tree saw the snow.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #747
This tree is small.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #746
This tree is big.
[daily log: walking, 4km]
Caveat: Tree #745
This tree supervised while I created a rectangle with 4×4’s. Now I need to dig little holes under the six pillars so I can make the rectangle level, and then I can mount my “studio” (storage tent) on the rectangle. This will be a much stronger anchor than just boards on the ground, as it had been anchored before.
[daily log: walking, 4km]
Caveat: Tree #744
This tree blocked my view of the sea. I was okay with that.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
Caveat: Tree #743
This tree intercepted the rising moon.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km]
Caveat: Tree #742
This tree (well, it’s not so much a tree as a small piece of a tree that became detached from a pointy stick of arboreal provenance) spent three days embedded in my thumb, without my realizing it. But it started to hurt and I pulled it out, somewhat painfully. I have placed it next to a dime for scale.
[daily log: walking, 2km]
Caveat: Tree #741
This tree saw blue skies.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 7hr]
Caveat: Tree #740
This tree watched the sun set off the south end of San Juan Island.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; retailing, 6hr]
Caveat: Tree #739
This tree has also been eclipsed by one of my patented disks of ice.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]
Caveat: Tree #738
This tree was snowed upon while others were not. Can you see which tree it was?
[daily log: walking, 3.5km]
Caveat: Tree #737
This tree framed the sea.
[daily log: walking, 2.5km]
Caveat: Tree #736
This tree has been killed and processed, the better to serve as the flooring (deck) of my treehouse. Also, I bought some wood to frame out a new “foundation” for my storage tent, since it got unmounted by high winds last week.
I hooked up the heavy-duty trailer, and Art and I drove into town on a special trip so I could spend some of my hard-earned gift-store salary on materials for my treehouse project. It was a lot of work, and harder to drive the potholey road with a loaded trailer.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km]
Caveat: Tree #735
This tree has been eclipsed by a circlet of ice that I found frozen on the surface of a plastic bucket and placed upon a decorative pile of rocks.
[daily log: walking, 3km]
Caveat: Tree #734
This tree was framed by other trees.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 7hr]
Caveat: Tree #733
This tree watched fast-moving clouds.
[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 6hr]