I spent yesterday afternoon getting a fallen tree off one of the pasture fences. It had been killed in the drought of 2011 and was laden down with grapevines such that it managed to fall toward the prevailing winds into the pasture instead of down the riverbank as hoped. It was such a mess that I contemplated just hooking it up to the tractor and pulling it all to the burn pile and then rebuilding the fence. However sanity won over, so I sawed and hacked and chopped until the fence was exposed. Amazingly it was nearly intact! I hope tomorrow is not as windy as today as I would like to get the whole jungle of a burn pile incinerated before the county enacts a burn ban. We have a pretty serious drought going again this summer.
