Northeast Gardening: Garden Photos of '09......#3, 1 by redchic01

redchic01 wrote:
Thanks all!!

Bill, You're right! The first thing that I thought of was.... ohhh, no glasses! Then no chaps! I'll admit that I don't always put on chaps if I'm just running the saw for a few minutes, but.... much longer than that and I do. I almost always have sun glasses on or near me whenever I'm outside, they double as protective eye wear! I say almost because, wearing them in the rain is a pain. I have yet to find a good pair with windshield wipers!

Karen, It looks fantastic! Love the Pictures. glad that you're having fun with it.
Just remember, if you ever want stories gross enough to shock a person into safety gear.... I have many. several of them of folks I know first hand, and yes they were folks who've been running it many years and know how. And two stories that are my own!!!

Schicken, that's funny. It's almost the opposite here. I don't know any woodsperson that wont run a saw, for just a few minutes, without stuff. But, I also don't know any who won't wear at least chaps when heading out for a wood cutting project. We look really funny! But, our insurance will also cover any claims that way!!! I suppose that it could also have something to do with the amount of underbrush. The chaps do double duty at helping protect from all the things pinned under the tree that are going to flail around as soon as they're released. I had a tiny sliver actually get into my eye once. The thing was almost microscopic, but the infection was a lot larger!! Oh... Those black violets are beautiful!! Maybe I'll have to get some to go with the black hellebores. Where did you get those, maybe it's someplace that I can order from?

Dahlia, that's sooo hard to pin down a time for them! I had some try to come up in December, but the weather got to them and after a month of freeze/thaw/freeze/thaw every day they finally turned to mush before blooming. The others set buds in January, but have just stayed that way and are STILL only in bud!! However, Niger or it's close relatives, will almost always be up by late Feb. Then Micha (aka ericsmithii x ??) in early March. The hybrids range all over between Jan and March depending on the weather. Then of course, that's all in this climate here. So, sorry that I really didn't help anything for you Dahlia! The corsicans are pretty reliable at late Feb/early March. Hmmmm.... I think that I just muddled things up!!

Robin, your son and I would get along great! We both would look funny, but without any gashes across our legs!

I didn't fall this tree, nature did that. But, it fell down across a trail that we were clearing out that day and had to be removed from the trail. This is pretty standard attire (I don't wear the hard hat when I'm cutting at home) minus the eye stuff because it's raining. But, the dust can't fly that high when It's raining anyhow.

If anyone is curious, I'll post the picture taken once done and the trail was in place again.