Timber!

A jell that can often be heard in forests where lumberjacks are in action.

It can also sound like: Baum fällt! or let's say ¡Árbol va!, Beregis'! or simply and briefly Gare! but it is clear that when one of these exclamations is heard, a tree falls.

At the beginning of last year, during a storm with heavy rain and thunder, a bolt of lightning struck the top of a tall pine tree in the yard of our cottage.
We came into possession of that yard at the beginning of the millennium, and the pine tree was already very tall.
We were thinking about whether to cut it down, because its large and high canopy was creating a problem for the fruit saplings that we planned to grow in that part of the plot - apples, cherries, pears...

However, the beauty of the pine and the great shade we had under it in the warm summer months, made us leave it in the living room and it continues to be our benchmark when we come to the cottage.
While one of the neighbors is explaining where his house is, he says that his house is near the third pole or the "Deer on the road" traffic sign.
We used to say: "Our house is at the end of the village, near a tall pine".

And so, the pine tree was there safe from the ax and the chainsaw, but an evil fate befell it, straight from the sky.
During a lightning strike, some electronic devices were damaged in our and our neighbor's cottage, since it is in the immediate vicinity of pine trees, there are wires through which our houses receive electricity.
And that lightning strike literally split the pine tree near the top and led to the fact that the top of the pine began to dry over the next few months.

In order not to risk the tree or part of the tree falling and endangering power cables, passers-by or drivers on the road next to the cottage, we had to look for options for cutting the tree.

The crowd of public services that deal with it and the expensive offers turned us away all last year (€700 was the price of one of them, which was a very high amount for us...).

Now that the winter has passed, without consequences, since the branches withstood the snow that fell on them, the search for the woodcutter intensified and on Monday, the mountain pine was felled.

As I was not able to attend the action of pine cutting, my mother asked me to go to the cottage today, this Wednesday, and help with the sorting of the cut branches, as well as parts of the tree.

I took the day off from work and headed to the cottage.
How tall and wide was that tree...
It didn't seem that thick, until it was knocked down.
Since the pine tree, due to the large amount of resin it secretes, is not good for use in the house, where we heat with wood, we made a selection, the thicker ones were left for construction, the thinner branches are cut for use in the wood stove and the rest are separated into a pile, which will be picked up by a relative who has a boiler for heating the house (wood).

Until now, I have not had the opportunity to cut such a large amount with a small electric saw and branch shears, but a good part of the branches had to be sawn and there was a lot of work...

Only after sawing and sorting, all those cut pieces had to be brought down to the woodshed under the house.

And that's where my today's #wednesdaywalk comes in
Dozens of times I walked through the yard from top to bottom, and then from bottom to top, in order to put all that cut wood for heating, in storage for next winter.
What to do... Sometimes on Wednesdays we walk for recreation and relaxation, sometimes for enjoyment and relaxation, and today I walked because of an assignment I got from my mother 🙂

In order not to have spent the whole day just working and walking for the purposes of packing wood, after the action was over, I visited the surrounding meadows, walked along well-known paths in the company of two dogs and plucked a few branches of blossoming lilac.

It wasn't difficult for me because I knew that this had to be done, and even when winter comes again, the wood we prepared today will warm us on cold days.

Timber!