On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 07:54:43 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 20:48:42 -0400, JohnH wrote:


I've got 11 large oaks to contend with. If I don't hit the leaves every
third or fourth day, I'd never be able to wade through them. I'm talking
some serious leaves here!

That's all?

Amateur.


One of our horse paddocks has a very old apple tree in it. It still
produces apples, but lost a major limb in a snow storm a few years ago.
The limb represented about a third of the tree. I don't completely
understand why, but having some kind of weird respect for it we had a
professional tree person come over and he worked on it, injecting something
in it to help nurse it back to health.

Unfortunately, yesterday's storm took another third down.

http://www.eisboch.com/appletree.jpg

Eisboch


I appears as though the tree may not have been the biggest apple producer
around, but it did have a lot of 'character'. Shame to lose it.