Did it again!

Today was the perfect flying day, the best for several weeks by far. It was sunny and warm with a bright blue sky and practically no wind to speak of. But yet again I couldn’t fly, because I’d practically run out of wood and needed to replenish my stocks by cutting down my last big dead tree.

I’d asked my friend Wim for his help because I was concerned that when I cut through its trunk, there was a danger that it might fall the wrong way against my neighbour behind me’s house. He told me that the best thing to do was tie a rope to the tree about ten or fifteen feet up with the other end secured to a suitable spot at ground level, so when the tree toppled it would pivot round the point at which the rope was secured and fall in the desired area ie on my back lawn. Simple when you think about it, although it hadn’t occurred to me before I have to admit, and that’s what I did.

Although the trunk was fairly hefty, the tree had been dead for long enough for my little chain saw to make quite quick work of it and it was soon lying on the ground where I wanted it. Chopping it up took far longer, though, but after a while I soon had a good stock of new logs ready to stack up in my fireplace indoors and outdoors under my shelter. I added to the stock even more by lopping a couple of unneeded branches on the tree next to the one I’d felled and two more from trees in my front garden near the road. In doing so, I came across yet more that I can lop off so at the rate I’m going, I think that there really might be a chance after all that I’ll get through the winter without having to buy any wood in.

So having missed yet another good flying day, albeit in a good cause, I’m now left waiting with baited breath to see how tomorrow turns out. It’s forecast to be another lovely day, so there’s a hope that I might get airborne. However, a couple of the weather forecasting web sites that I use are suggesting that although the wind will be fairly light for most of the day, there could be periods of strong gusts that might cause problems. Anyway, there’s nothing I can do for now, so I’ll just have to wait and see how things shape up.