Well, this morning was the moment of truth... Mr. Chainsaw and I ventured into the main planting bed where the top 30 feet of a 100 foot oak was resting over an area 30 X 20... All I could see were oak leaves and limbs and one or two of the P-Vine's rare azaleas... I worked like a surgeon for 2 hours in there and was amazed over and over at how that tree fell so that almost everything was safe under that mass... It now all cleaned and raked out and out of the 25 or so plants the P-Vine had under that mess all but two came out of the deal with little or no damage... The two that sustained heavy damage (one oak leaf hydrangea and my favorite azalea) will live but are now half the size they were prior to the event...

That's the latest chapter of "How I Spent the Summer"...

B~