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Soapweed, you ok?

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Just wonderin about you as their saying a tornado is moving from merriman to eli. :shock:

Hope all but the rain skips you as it did us. We had 3 tenths thurs. night, 7 tenths last night (Raymond says it was 9-our guage aint great, he may be right). And it sure is coming down nice here now. :lol: :lol: :lol: Thank you lord!

Take Care.
 
We just got a nice four tenths of an inch of rain, and didn't see the tornado. A very hard downpour happened for a little while and then a more moderate rain took effect. It is still sprinkling slightly. We got a very welcome three quarters of an inch last night, a quarter inch the night before, and fifteen hundredths the night before. Ranching is starting to become fun again. :wink:
 
Faster horses said:
No one needs a tornado that's for sure. We were in one in W. Montana. Damaged all of our buildings except for the one Mr. FH was in. We had
500 cottonwood trees on the ground. What a mess!!!!!

Glad you got the rain, Soapweed. We got missed.
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FH,
What DID you do with 500 cottonwoods downed??

Some friends told us of an elderly couple who sold their home and planned to retire to a heavily wooded lot in Florida. That had always been their dream to live in a forested area. A hurricane came thru and blew down every last tree on the lot. The clean up cost would have been formidable. I believe the story went they walked away from it and suffered a huge financial blow. Trees are beautiful but sure can be a headache.
 
Cottonwood trees on a creek bottom in Montana are almost considered a
noxious weed.

What did we do with them? At that time the wood had no value. The CCC boys from Anaconda came in and helped with the inital cleanup, as
did people from town. We needed to clear roads, etc so we could get around TO clean up the trees. We fed them all. It was like a logging camp. I had help cooking and I keep a journal about it. It seemed like we
cooked steady from early morning to late evening, fell into bed and got up and did it again. But what the heck, they were helping us for no charge. It was the LEAST we could do for them.

Some young bucks from Missoula came out and cut some of the trees up
to take to Missoula and sell for firewood. Mostly they played around...if I ever get a scanner I will post some pictures of all the trees down and then sawed up.

Anyhow, an old man and a younger man (boy even) came with a
camper trailer and set up a camp. They had a trailer and they worked
REALLY hard on cutting the trees into firewood. They hauled it to Missoula
and sold it. We figured once they had cut 2500 cords of wood, hauled
it and sold it that winter. I mean they WORKED!!

So that's what we did with the trees.
 
Like the story about the kid...........didn't know until he was full grown that his name wasn't "Get Wood"
 
Glad to hear all was ok, and that you got some good moisture, read your post last night but decorated Brush's b-day cake instead of letting myself on the puter long enough to post. We ended up with 3 tenths (or 5 in raymonds), I think I will move my guage away from the house. I think it is sheltered out on our deck.

Good thing too, cause I'd have been scrambling to get the cake done before this afternoon. Had a flat on the way back from mass... :mad: had to wait to be rescued by my handsome prince :wink: now am almost ready, hope it doesn't storm us out, what the heck, bring on the rain, I don't care, he'll live.

wow fh, that would've been quite the sight, and mess. That guy knew how to work sounds like. 2500 cords x $75? = big bucks, but tons of work. :shock:

take care all!
 


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