The World According To Guitarguy

Well now , here’s a new wrinkle in my plans to vacate tomorrow .

After a Mother’s Day brunch with his wife Margaret , daughter Christine and a few others at a local buffet style restaurant, John and I decided to install a couple of ceiling fans.

One of the fans was not going to work out for the pitched ceiling in the bathroom, so we needed to drive 20 miles to Sylva and the nearest Lowe’s to get another .

Upon our return , as we rounded the sharp curve into the driveway , there , sitting directly in front of us , was an enormous tree lying across the driveway !

We were experiencing strong wind gusts coming back to Bryson City , so that’s probably what caused it to fall .

The roots lifted a good portion of the slope that they were once anchored to and heaved it upwards .

Their driveway has a steep embankment  leading down to a cascading stream on one side and a rather steep hill on the other.

We had to leave the car behind, duck under the trunk and hoof it back to the house .

Rather , I went back to the house , John grabbed a chain saw and yelled across the duck pond separating his place from the neighbor’s and to ask him to come over and help remove it .

He was over the foot bridge that connects the two properties in minutes , chain saw in one hand and a gas can in the other .

Neither had a saw big enough to cut the largest sized branches , but they went at it and cleared quite a few limbs , which we then dragged an deposited to the side of the drive .

I say we but I had to quit after about 5 trips after my knee started to give .

I then took over all media coverage of the event, besides somebody had to man the phones and keep the house pets company .

They’re still out there now and a few minutes ago I heard John’s diesel truck lumber down the drive from in back of the carport , so they must be going to try and use it as a skidder . 

Unfortunately , darkness and showers have set in and it remains to be seen if the driveway will be clear tomorrow .

Seeing that there is no other way out , I may be here for another day……………….

Stay tuned………………..film at 11

Well , it just happens to be 10:55 p.m. and they did it !

Margaret’s daughter Christine called a friend who came to the rescue with a pro sized saw .

(and a shirt that read “Rescue” oddly enough)

I was told (by a reliable source mind you) that when the cut was made to the lower half of the trunk , it sprang back upright, becoming a much shorter version of the tree’s former self .

So , weather permitting , I should be back on the road again tomorrow !

Time will tell……….