I've spent the past three days with the boss and a chainsaw. We might get the damage cleaned up by, say, oh, July maybe. On of the trees that went down was a red spruce with at least a 36 inch diameter. It was double-trunked and a very heavy tree and took out six other large trees when it went over, roots and all. It took part of the granite ledge underneath, too. Andy and I look at it, thought about it, talked it over, and decided that the easiest thing was to move the trail. We have cut down, cut up and removed aproximately 50 trees in the last three days. Some very few we can salvage for firewood, but the vast majority are spruces and pines and are no good for burning. They gunk up the chimney and cause problems. We have another ten on the trails to take care of and then about 15 in the picnic area. After the tree work, we have some major work to do on our wheelchair accessible trail to make it wheelchair accessible once more.

A pint of Bass would be lovely right about now.