{"id":29408,"date":"2010-02-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/WP-IMPORT\/2010\/02\/21\/two-trees-and-a-chainsaw\/"},"modified":"2010-02-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T03:00:00","slug":"two-trees-and-a-chainsaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/two-trees-and-a-chainsaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Trees and a Chainsaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"750\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" class=\"style1\" scope=\"col\">\n<p><a href=\"2-21-10-two-trees2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/WP-IMPORT\/wp-content\/uploads\/old-imgs\/2-21-10-two-trees2_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Barn\" width=\"447\" height=\"263\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><br \/> Click to see larger<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> I managed to get out the back door thanks to the melt from the roof, which had beat back the drift on the deck into an adamant plain of knee-high white. I started a path toward the steps, throwing snow over the railing. It was then that I realized, in addition to the medium sized pine that had collapsed across the deck, nearly missing the house, that another pine was rakishly draped across the back of the garage.<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> Shit. I didn\u2019t remember that from last week, but maybe it was all too much to take in at one time.<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> This was a hell of a storm. They say we might get another one by the end of the week.<\/p>\n<p> I shoveled on, decks and paths and barn-roof, until the last light faded toward the mountains and the mercury vapor security light came on next to the house.<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> Heckle had his food, and I was about done. I left the shovel by the back door and tracked ice into the mud room and made a substantial vodka. Then I went back to the deck and listened to the melt.<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> I promised Heckle the dry stuff was good enough for now and he could have a can of tuna in the morning, but I wasn\u2019t going to put it out while the god-damn raccoons were going to get it.<br \/> \u00a0<br \/> Now I have to find a guy with a chainsaw. <br \/> \u00a0<br \/> <a href=\"2-21-10-two-trees3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/WP-IMPORT\/wp-content\/uploads\/old-imgs\/2-21-10-two-trees3_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Barn cat Heckle\" width=\"237\" height=\"250\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><br \/> Click to see larger <\/p>\n<p> Copyright 2010 Vic Socotra<br \/> www.vicsocotra.com <br \/> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/vicsocotra.com\/rss2.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Subscribe to the RSS feed!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click to see larger \u00a0 I managed to get out the back door thanks to the melt from the roof, which had beat back the drift on the deck into an adamant plain of knee-high white. I started a path toward the steps, throwing snow over the railing. It was then that I realized, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-socotra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}