Perfect Timing
Got the Message
As my husband bulldozes and cleans out around this old place it's hard not to park under an old tree. And he spends most waking hours--when he's not at his paying job--working on this old house. Well, one Sunday morning he got up at his usual 5:30 a.m. and took off to work for a few hours. He parked his truck as usual under one of the old trees and stopped working just in time to come home and get cleaned up for church. When he returned to LMV later the exact tree he had parked under had fallen in the EXACT spot he was parked! Talk about coincidence! I think not--he got the message! He doesn't miss church now!!!
We love old things!
But what to cut and what to leave is often a difficult decision. We love OLD things--trees especially. However, over the carport there was an old Sycamore that had lost it's top to Hurricane Hugo and taken out the laundry room in the process! And there was a huge towering pine leaning ominously over the driveway that - if the wind took the right direction - could take out the carport. And the beautiful oak beside the house was full of dead limbs which could smash the kitchen.
Time to Go
Although at the time we didn't have HURRICANE FLORENCE bearing down on us, Dwight decided we had better get them gone before damage was done. So he placed a call to 360 Tree & Limb LLC. Jason Green and his crew came right out to remove the trees. They worked hard not to take out any other outbuildings or bring down any other trees or shrubs that were must saves for me! ( I had hoped for a nice trunk from the Sycamore for some lumber, but it was hollow all the way through! How it was standing at all was a wonder.) Perfect timing! Thanks, guys, for a job well done!
Hurricane Preparation
So how do you prepare an old house for a hurricane? It's weathered quite a few already, so I just pray it will survive another one. This property is full of beautiful ancient trees that we hope will stand strong! The house stands on a hill, so you'd think flooding wouldn't be a problem... but Dwight just got the basement drained of 5 feet of water--and I am sure he'd like for it to stay that way! And 8 exterior doors with no knobs--guess we'd better secure those! All the windows are unbroken--and it would be good for them to remain unbroken! The North front porch is full of lumber which will need to be moved so it doesn't become flying debris. Electricity shouldn't be a problem, since we only have a service pole at this time, we can just unplug the extension cord. But I guess that would take out the security system, so it may have to stay plugged in...
Florence...go away!