July 8 - 18, 2024 - Cutting Up Fallen Tree at the Church/Weeds in Florida Planter Box

 MY BLOG REFLECTION

After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box.

Italian Proverb

July 8th: Fallen Tree at Church

Monday at 7:00 a.m. five of us met at Peace Lutheran Church in Friedenberg, MO, to clean up a fallen tree which broke out a couple of church windows. Peace Lutheran is a small country church no longer having services on a regular basis but it is being preserved as an historical location for the Lutheran Church in Perry County, Missouri. John's grandpa was involved in the building of this church in 1885 so John and his wife, Carlene, has been actively involved in its maintenance. They enlist my help now and again with projects like the tree falling. 

Considering the size of the tree that fell, it was lucky that there wasn't more damage to the church. Here are a couple of "before" pictures.

This is a picture with about half of the brush cut away. It is amazing how many branches are on a large tree like this. All of the cut off limbs with leaves were drug down into the woods to once again become part of nature. (That's me in the yellow shirt.)

It was hot working on this project but there was a good crew of five guys. We had all of the brush cut up and cleaned up by 9:30 a.m.  A neighbor is going to come over and block up and split the wood for heating her house this winter. 

July 10th: Weeds at the house in Florida

On Sunday I got an emailed "Courtesy Notice" from the Golden Gate Residents Association that the "Enforcement Committee" found that we had weeds in our front planter boxes. We have been given 30 days to clean them out. Here is a picture they sent of the weeds they are talking about.

Are you kidding me? They aren't even six inches tall! 

In any event, it is a bit of a problem to get rid of Florida weeds from Missouri. I knew that our new next door neighbors from Michigan, Mark and Susan, are at their place about a week each month during the summer working on their place. I called Mark and luckily he happened to be in Florida. I asked him if he would buy some week killer and spray the weeds for me. I told him I would reimburse him when I got down there, or before if he wanted. He said no need. He had some weed killer but that instead he would go over and pull the weeds. He said he had some weeds he better deal with as well. LOL

It appears weeds are going to be an issue while we are gone in the summer. Last winter we had talked about having this planter box torn out and the entire front yard concreted. We now have more incentive for such a project when we get down there in the fall.

Not much else going on. Too hot until today.