Every now and then you can expect the unexpected on the homestead. Today we awoke to this, a large portion of one of our Cherry trees lying on the ground. As you can see it had fallen from high, fortunately we were not under it at the time!
It appears this branch had been rotting, and after a little rain and wind could hold on no more.
Sadly it had an abundance of fruit that would have been ripening soon had this not happened.
Time to clean up. Using a chainsaw made reasonably quick work of dismantling this massive limb. Of course steel toed shoes, hearing and eye protection ensured safety during the process.
Once all the debris had been piled up all that was left was this one large log that we will use to border a new garden something like what we've done here.
In our Province there are strict burning regulations so we check to make sure we're in compliance and then we begin burning. It's a family affair as you can see. All we were missing was a few wieners and a long stick!
It wasn't long before the fire was burning well, and not long after that it was pretty much just embers.