This weekend Your Scribe will be at the camp, attempting to find a local woodsman who wants to cut healthy trees and cart away the wood. I have had trouble inspiring the chainsaw crowd to action. And I thought wood was in demand! (Above is the start of the forest behind the cabin).

The key goal is to take down trees near the cabin. When certain conifers don’t get sunlight, they die. Then they look like they could fall on the structure.

Pursuing that theme, if I have take down some towering (healthy) trees, the increased sunlight will make for a healthier forest. At one point I actively avoided bending as much as a sapling. But I’ve finally learned that a thinner forest makes for a healthier forest, so I am trying to cut a deal.

I will also seek audience with Kevin the Well Digger regarding the tree in the river. He thinks he can winch it, using the power of his Jeep. I like confidence in my well diggers, especially when he hasn’t walked down to the river to assess the situation. Well, I say he is a well digger but he also deals with obdurate trees.

Several years ago, Bob the Woodsmen blazed a path to the river. That path is getting overgrown. I hope to interest Kevin – or someone – to widen the trail (shown here) Then perhaps he can drive to the water, and pull out the tree (aka, the dock).

They say there is a recession under way. But every handyman or woodsman that I contact says they can’t start the job for at least a month because they are so busy. I will have to be at my negotiating best to close the deal for a handyman to head into the woods.

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