My 300 year old Fir  tree is no more. I have retained a few pieces of it including the very last piece that came off of the stump. Apparently when a tree has no branches, it is no longer a tree. It is a stump. My plan is once the weather gets nicer (meaning cooler) I will get out my woodburburning set and make a memorial to all the kitties that are buried underneath or near history including one dog my old service dog German Shepherd Brandi.

The cats that were in the enclosure are all fine. Right now they are in my patio room. There was an incident on Friday when one of the cutter’s was about 40 feet in the air cutting on the tree. They had cut all of the branches from the bottom up first and then they cut all the knots out of the tree that were protruding. I keep trying to put pictures on my blog but I keep getting told I can’t so I’m not sure what’s going on. But anyway when they got to the very top of the tree they found a blackberry bush growing out of the top! They also discovered that among the dozens of tops that this tree was growing, four of those tops were actually maple trees! So it’s been very strange around here. But as I said the cutter was up and as he nudged the tree on the cut part it went down the tree but he neglected to cut one knot and it bounced off the knot and landed on my cat enclosure! There was quite a dent in the top of the roof. I immediately went inside to see the damage which was substantial but there was no escape hole for the cats to get out of thank God.

This is the final day of the cut, I am down just to a flat stump on the ground. They are going to fix the roof completely so I have captured all the kitties and put them inside. I know they’re going to spray, but there’s nothing I can do about that except buy a gallon of urine off after this is over and get to work. The vet had given Bentley some Xanax which put him over the top. He was so anxious after he got that first pill. He was beyond stressed and the chemical wasn’t working as it should so I didn’t give him any more. He has gone through this whole ordeal with no drugs on board. He’s doing OK. Better than I expected that he would.

One other casualty of this job is my emails are non-working right now something happened somewhere. Comcast can’t figure it out and all the links they’re sending me I can’t figure it out either. They are backed up on appointments and the gentleman is not going to come out until next Tuesday. So if anyone’s trying to get a hold of me via email you will be unable to do that at this time.

I am personally glad that we are on the end of this they’ve been here for about a week now and they were having issues. When they climbed up the tree to the very top and dropped a tape down they put the tree at 70 feet tall! What they were finding when they got to the top and started cutting, the more they cut off the tree the more the tree leaned towards the structure, a.k.a. the cat enclosure. So they had to start taking smaller cuts and being very careful where they directed the pieces to fall. I had some pretty big craters in my ground. Those are all gone now they’ve smoothed out everything they put shavings over the top mixed with new dirt and you can’t really tell  that any creator was ever there.

I hope they do as good of a job on my cat enclosure roof as they did on my tree. I will miss this tree it created great shade for the entire house for so many years. Now we are entering into a major heat wave and it will be interesting to see if the inside of my house stays at a cool 60 or if it responds to the horrible heat outside and gets hotter. I just wanted to bring this up-to-date and now I have to go because they need me outside for a few minutes. Everybody stay safe, stay cool and I’ll catch you later.