If a tree falls in the cove, does anyone hear it? Apparently not. This is what CG woke up to in her backyard one morning last week. The Cove is usually a grassy green meadowy place, where a couple weddings have been celebrated. It typically isn't crossed with fallen trees.
However, if you combine "flood" irrigating (we don't practice this, but CG does) with a day or two of high winds, this is what happens, according to both RanchHand and Number One.
See the tree above, that is leaning precariously on the branch near the right top corner? That was the one that held the tree swing...you can see the tree swing's rope wrapped around the trunk to prevent kids from swinging on it because we were concerned about some limbs that had fallen to rest right above where the swing was.
These are huge old cottonwood trees. I would have put something in the pictures for scale, but I didn't want to endanger any animals or boys in the making of this post. Remember the tree that is leaning precariously against the other tree above? Well, in the picture below, you can see that it is ready to topple over--the base is cracked too. It won't take much for that one to come down as well, so there goes the tree swing!
It sure will be fun cleaning this up! Not. That's the thing about ranching, you can never ever be caught up on your work. Because the minute you think you might be getting close, several trees fall down that need moving and cleaned up. Or a bull breaks through a fence. Or a flood comes. Or something else happens. Never fails.
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