License To Drive

City Girl is on the countdown to get her Driver's License.

Two days left of peace.  Friday is the big day.

My neighbor told us that 75% of all teenage drivers get into an accident in the first three months.

I feel so fatalistic.

Please enjoy these pictures of some funny car accidents.

I need to laugh or I'll cry.

Update:  She got it.  Watch yourself out there. 

Business Trip Beauty

I was on a business trip this week and came out of my hotel room to this.

No, it wasn't snow.

It was sunrise at Ft. Walton Beach, Florida.

Today we're going to look at trailers for the Polaris.  Maybe we'll actually get to use it on the Tree Farm soon!

Wordless Wednesday

365 Love

I love you today as much as the last 364 days, 

and will continue to not wait until 

February 14th of each year to tell you.

City Tree Trimming

What's this?

A 60' Washington Palm on the tree lawn of our City House that I was sitting under this afternoon.  It was probably planted around the time this house was built in 1925.  Sometimes the flower stalks or palm fronds from this giant fall near you - and sometimes on you.  You can hear the sound, but you don't know where it's coming from, and then WHUMP!  You look at it and thank your lucky stars you weren't standing in the wrong place.  

Fortunately that didn't happen today.

I was sitting there because RetroMan and I were trimming a Camphor tree in our front yard.  

Rather, I was directing from under the palm tree and he was doing the work.

He used our two chain saws, Mutt and Jeff.

They were bought from Pawn Shops by Dumb and Dumber (I'm Dumber) - the second to be used for parts for the first.  The love/hate relationship with these two things is worthy of a blog all by itself, but I'll spare you.

Being a really cool Tree Farmer and all, I thought I'd figure out how old the branch was.

Ok, never mind.

Then I asked RetroMan what he was going to do with all of the branches.

"Take them up to the Farm and burn them."

"What?  You're going to take these 120 miles just to burn them?"

"Yeah.  We need a lot of wood for the bonfire."

"We have 60 thousand trees on that Tree Farm, and a lot of them are dead.  We can even cut more down if we have to."

"No, we should leave the trees on the Tree Farm alone."

I mean for real.  Is there a Doctor for someone who owns a Tree Farm and doesn't want to cut down trees?

Well, I guess there's hope.  He did trim a tree today.