I’m not a tree hugger, BUT….
In case you don’t know we had a major weather day in Alabama yesterday. While some of our area reported damage, our part of the bend fortunately escaped tornadoes and high winds. But as you know part of a tornado event is lightning.
Well I am very sad to report, we did in fact sustain a casualty. Lightning hit our oldest tree here on our l’tle farm. It literally blasted bark as far as twenty feet away. I’m talking bark that was over two inches thick. I picked up a piece and it weighted several pounds. You can tell from the pic it pealed the bark all the way down to the base of the tree. My youngest daughter Reagan is standing next to the old fellow.
This tree was one of the centerpieces of our forest and was one of the factors in picking this property- it has tremendously beautiful old virgin pine and hardwoods. This particular tree must have been the granddaddy of them all.
It will only be a matter of time before it is blown over. The lightning hit it midway up and just disintegrated that part of the tree and then pealed it down. Now it is susceptible to being blown in half. Eventually, I’ll have to spend a couple of grand to get it cut down and removed.
Hey, I know we will have a ceremony and burn it in our outdoor fireplace.
You know like they did in the viking days…put the dead in a boat and burned it at sea….well forget the sea part, we’ll just cut it up and say goodbye in our fireplace. 
It will make at least two years worth of wood once you split it into small logs to fit (and for me to be able to pickup).
Thank God we all OK….we just lost a tree, but it was my favorite.
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