Friday, January 24, 2020

Tree song

Hi Natty!  Oh, do you like to climb trees?  I'm too bulky and my feet are bad, so I can't climb trees: I have to use a ladder.  There are certainly a lot of trees around the house, and nature has a powerful grip on the yard: it is the tropics, after all.  I can have you climb the trees and tend to the LED spotlights, and do the pruning.  I saw this cute little chainsaw at the hardware store the other day: it was about the size of a purse, yet still gasoline powered!  Of course there are a lot of bugs on the trees.  Mostly ants, but at times one has to deal with other vermin like hornets, snakes, centipedes, and other unidentifiable creatures.
I have to buy this house in order to destroy this house in order to build a new house for my wife inshaAllah, but I can't even get started because I have no money right now.  No Natty, you can't keep that tree.  Not only is it a pest, but it's probably haunted.  That's the nature of my work: I have a lot of ghosts follow me around, so be ready for that.  And only Allah can raise the dead and make them speak.  We probably can't use that area where the tree has taken over even after I destroy it.  Maybe we can make it into a patio or something.
That's a dead jackfruit tree.  Normally I would try to chainsaw it down, but as you can see there's nowhere to run from the falling tree.  There are no houses or human traffic in that spot, so the safest thing to do is to let it fall by itself then try to dismantle it afterwards.

Anyway happy climbing, Natty!  Sing a song on the way to the canopy!  I love you!