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The iffy-looking 30 foot, 20-inch-thick linden tree that used to tower over most of my front yard is now lying in pieces on the ground instead. With no previous tree removal experience, and minimal help from Echo, I was able to cut down the entire thing by myself in one day. I'm really surprised I was able to do it that fast. Like many real-work-involving projects, it looked worse than it was. It was also fun to do a stupid, dangerous male thing without help, which I haven't done in a while.
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Current Location: The Ground, thank God.
Current Music: The Forest - The Cure

A grapefruit tree, to be exact. Planting trees in this part of Texas consists large of geology, as, once you get past the top soil, you're removing at least 15% limestone by volume. At this point in toilage, the shovel is no longer a functional tool, as even the smallest rock will stop it. Instead, one digs with a pick axe. :)

This is a cold-tolerant (to about 15 or 20 degrees) variety with a full-sized rootstock. I got five orange-sized grapefruits out of it last season (like, just now) when it was still living in a 15-gallon pot, so I'm excited to see how it will do with more room to stretch it's insubstantial, sponge-like roots.

I hope it hurries up, because after digging out rocks for 5 hours, I'm pretty hungry.

Current Location: Shirtless in the front yard
Current Music: The Pitter-Patter of the Pickaxe