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| Damage to the chicken coop |
One of my favorite features of our property was the large honey locust tree in the center of the back yard. This spring Jamey and an I enjoyed learning all about this species of tree. There are so many uses for both the seeds, seed pods, etc... From making coffee with the beans to the many medicinal uses of the pulp we were excited to harvest and experiment. Even when deciding whether to get a pool or pond the largest factor was that we did not want to loose this tree.
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| Landed just short of our pool. |
Last week we had some strong straight line winds that may have put an end to all of that. We came home to find roughly a 1/3 of the tree sprawled out across the yard. The large section graised the chicken coop roof, sheared off the a door and smashed a portion of the chicken run. Our new pool narrowly survived the wrath of its many branches. There is a large crack in the remaining trunk. We will hopefully get a hold of an arborist from the Maumee Forrest to come out and give us their advise about keeping the rest of the tree or cutting it down. We spent the better part of the last 3 days cleaning up the mess. Luckily honey locust is a very hard wood and we will be able to harvest it for firewood next year.
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| Hopefully it will live |
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