One of the few bright points after Hurricane Helene and all the trees it blew down
is that every rootball is a dog digging opportunity.
![[Movie: Sky emerges; Blondie declines to go in (20M)]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2026-07-12--deadfall-rootball-dog-tunnel/20260712_084949.jpg)
Movie: Sky emerges; Blondie declines to go in (20M)
Sky went all the way under.
In this video she comes back out and shakes off dust.
Blondie declines to go in.
Here’s the video:
The cypress swamp is full of water and pollen.
That slash pine on the left is an example of a tree blown down by Hurricane Helene that still has a rootball and green needles.
Maybe some day soon the pine salvage operation will get here for such trees.
They can’t survive like that,
and they have some value as saw-timber of pulpwood.
-jsq
Update 2025-01-18:
Removed: pine deadfall in back driveway 2025-01-14.
Could this be a problem?
I’ll get to it either today or tomorrow,
so when something else falls on the front driveway we’ll have a way out the back. Continue reading
Arrow was bemused by this big sweetgum limb in the drive path,
that Gretchen had noticed the day before.
She wanted to know what I was going to do about it?
Amusingly, it fell so it was supported like a pyramid by its own limbs.
I brought the tractor and a logging chain and dragged it away. Continue reading
If a tree falls in the forest, does it land on a boat?
But if it didn’t make a hole in the hull, I bet the boat will still float.
-jsq
![[Cypress swamp pollen]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-02-27--swamp-pollen/20250227_161613.jpg)
![[Honeybun and deadfall]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-01-13--pine-deadfall-back-driveway/20250113_150419.jpg)
![[Limb, Arrow 2023-05-19]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2023-05-19--arrow-downed-limb/many.jpg){kind=icon}
![[Deadfall on boat 2023-04-11]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2023-04-11--pond-deadfall-orange-boat-blondie/many.jpg)