Matt came by on Saturday morning, pulled up in his hulking truck to show us how to properly use a chainsaw. He's one of those people it's hard not to really like and as he was trying to avoid going car shopping (groan), we ended up chatting at length. Being both an arborist and a CFA volunteer, he had some interesting, nay terrifying, things to say about how trees are falling over as they halve their root systems due to drought and (the CFA bit) about the run up to fire season. An old bloke he knows who keeps reams of weather records told him that conditions, this year, are slightly worse than they were back in '82. Yep, that'd be Ash Wednesday, people.
So, this is a little ritualistic sort of reminder to myself, and maybe you, to give thanks to the CFA for the skilled work they do.
oh that is not good (though the pedant in me wants to say ash wednesday was 1983 but then I remembered it was the 82/83 summer). I am really appreciating that we can water the garden without water restrictions as I remember them being an issue when we moved into the house - wonder how long we will last without water restrictions.
Posted by: Johanna GGG | November 11, 2014 at 10:28 AM