A Year ago.. sort of

A year ago about today but it was the first weekend of August or the actual date was August 2 2015 we had a massive wind that destroyed the memorial tree that was planted in memory of my dad..  The red Maple.. 

The reason I am writing about this event right now is because of the complete opposite the weather is on this weekend compared to last year.. It is cool cloudy and.. 66 degrees at the time I think it would have been fallen the tree.. Now in honesty the tree was knocked out on the first of August, and that day this past week was hot, sort of like last year, that day was hot and the storm was following the same MO as the storm that hit us two weeks prior, that storm was almost as bad but wasn't hardly raining when the wind blew extremely hard..  It would do nearly no damage at all to any trees or anything else in town.. Forward two weeks and it was a storm that was like a tornado but a strong horizontal wind that caused all sorts of damage and was just a few blocks that were involved.. 

I'm looking to trans plant trees shortly, starting them from cuttings but what I was planning on was starting them from cuttings and transplanting them by the first of September.. That won't work.. Every site I have looked at says it will take more than three months to get the gong.. Bummer, I was hopping to get them going by the first of September, not getting the project started then.. The shrubs next to the house are the target "trees" that I want to get going.. And the area is the ally planter that wasn't used this year..  We are wanting to get a shrub or small tree break there.. Short that don't go in the wires.. And this next to the house grows fast but can be kept tamed or seems like it can be kept tamed.. There are berries that grow on these and I'm not sure they are the seeds or not.. The berries are POISONOUS... Supposedly, mom had us convinced they are poison but I'm not sure and I never wanted to find out the hard way that she was right..   So would starting them from seed be better???  I'm not sure of anything anymore.. I checked how to go from clippings and that seems like a very long process but.. I'll check things out.. Hopefully we can get something going there in back.. i'd love to get the yellow willow growing in the front where the Red Maple was.. Maybe it will start.. Hopefully by the start of September.. You never know..


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