Undoing, the hardest part of creativity.
I have spent the last three days tearing down the big shed building I
helped build on our barn 42 years ago. The roof was leaking, the sills
were rotten.
So many memories are wrapped up in that farm. Dad has
been gone almost 4 years, now. I'm glad he didn't have to see it torn
down. He built it to last and it didn't go down without a fight.
Galvanized nails are stubborn things.
Along with the barn, we are
taking down the English Walnut tree that has grown too big. It was
hanging over the garage and dropping huge wads of heavy, wet leaves
every fall. The trunk was about 24" in diameter, it was 35 feet tall and
as wide, and I estimate it was 75 years old. I convinced the logger to
cut the lower trunk into 4" slabs that I can mill into lumber later.
They will dry in the barn for a year or so. The rest is becoming fire
wood.
Such is the cycle of life.

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