Another Domicidal Limb

Here are a few pix of another homicidal limb—or domicidal, since it was attempting to destroy our house. Since it landed at 4AM, the noise of branches landing on the roof woke us up, and completely freaked out the cats.

Fortunately, it actually landed right on the edge of the house, shattering all the little sticks at one end on the roof (1st picture, taken at the time), and shattering a few plants with the main branch at the other (2nd, taken in the morning). (That is my new lime tree you can see knocked over, it was a very welcome house-warming gift: thanks Leonie and Pete!)

Looking up at the tree, (3rd) you can see where the limb fell from, and you can see the limb that was dangling next to it, which was threatening to come down as well.

Since there was not a breath of breeze about when the first limb descended, we were a little worried that the slightest breeze would bring down this other—bigger—branch. So, I tossed a bit a rope over the branch with a noose around then end and pulled it down (4th) …

I then cut it up for firewood (5th). The branch was 5 meters long and fit perfectly into one of our firewood boxes!

I hope the tree was watching very closely: this is what we do when you throw a branch at us. First the noose, then dismembered and the fire! YOU'VE BEEN WARNED.