Sunday, October 23, 2011

Apple Tree and Me

Mrrrr Friends,

If you are like me, you appreciate the four seasons of the human year. Autumn is my favorite in many ways...because of the crunchy leaves for chasing and the crisp air that is so invigorating for a furry guy like me.

I took advantage of this very crisp day - we had a frost last night - to go out and check on my pal the apple tree.


You can see her here barely, Oom just wrapped her trunk cause it has a scar from being hit by a boulder. She's about 18 human feet tall I think and has two little trees attached to her roots but growing independent-like (the two scrawny trunks to the left). She used to live down along the brook close to here:


See all those pebbly rocks? My brook used to flow right there and she was right on the old bank. (All the grasses are still flattened from the big water. If I had been in this spot during the flood, I'd have been 2 feet underwater and moving fast downstream.)

That cranky old Irene broad brought the big rain, and the brook turned into a raging river. It took the apple tree away early in the day, and we thought we'd lost her beautiful spring flowers and fun to chase little red apples forever. But Oom found her downstream the day after. She was laying down with one long root still clinging to the bank with her branches hanging on to the two little trees.

Oom was pretty stressed out and sad that day, and she got the crazy notion they should try to save her. So with Boo they pulled her out of the brook, gently wrapped her roots, hauled her up to a new, safe spot, dug a huge hole and covered up all her roots real careful like.

We think that if she makes it, so will our town. Upper Jay, Keene, Ausable Forks and lots of nice people with there roots deep in these places got hammered just like my apple tree pal. I hope they are all okay. If you want to help them you can go here. Tell them Diesel sent you.