Trees need coats. well, some do.

I went for a ‘Drivingtotherez’ with my dogs. We felt like a woodstroll after our chores, which was covering our new pile of firewood with a tarp because well, it’s raining a LOT and wet wood doesn’t burn so nicely. so we covered our wet wood before it gets wet ter, aka so wet it won’t catch on fire without a big dollop of diesel, then another , then a bunch of dry wood from lower in the pile, then just then will it start to steam and smolder and fill the chimney with coal which then WILL burn like a dickens and catch the whole place on fire. ya don’t do that.

We went to the top top of the hill in a recent clear cut logged off. couple reasons, and couple observations. As a Groom of Gaia, the entire idea of a clearcut is abhorrent. Yet, as a fisherman (past tense to be honest) and a dirty bottom dragger at that, I could have been charged with the equally offensive act of ‘clear cutting the ocean’. In my defense, which is generally not advised, but I will do anyways.. We as a tribe designed our fishery specifically to limit the negative impacts by voluntarily restricting our gear size and type to what we could only use on clear sandy or muddy places. any rock whatsoever and we’d end up with a shredded 30,000 dollar useless pile of junk and no fish at all. Thats a pretty major incentive to stick to the ‘nice’ places to fish of which is maybe 10% of our entire area meaning 90% is AHHHHHHH Sanctuary for the fishies. AHHHHHHHH. (angel noises). Our reason for outlawing the gear that can fish over rocks is we wanted the reefs to remain untouched as a sanctuary, and the sandy spots next to them be the place we skimmed the cream without damaging the ‘bumps’ on the bottom so to speak, thereby avoiding the very bum smearing the reef flat effect and the losing of the fishies schoolhouse if you will. So we found that if we fished a spot, it’d actually get better over time. if we abandoned it, we would stop having fish there. I dunno why, it just happened that way, and now, due to a thing called ‘rationalization’ none of us are fishing at all. instead the big boats that DO have and use the gear to smear a reef flat get all the fishing. rational. ya sure. anyway, as I was saying, the clear cut logging, yeps, got observations yes I do.

Why did we go to a clear cut? well, when you get up the road that wouldn’t exist if they didn’t cut all them trees, you can see the majestic view that you also couldn’t have seen unless somehow you hiked all the way up there and then climbed the right tree that now is a chunk of some house to the very tippy top. Plus if your dogs are like mine, which is well, mildly very extremely guardian breed type and quite young so they are as smart as a teenage boy with a 600hp supercharged hot rod and a pretty girl he thinks likes that kind of thing walking along the sidewalk. Yep, they may bite, he may blip the throttle and even lay some rubber. because all girls like that, mmhmm. and guardian dog yearlings guard sometimes a little too much. We need to see that theres nothing human for them to want to guard me from within sight so they and I can do our stroll in peace. so, top of the logged off I can see for miles we are alone! grr all the way up, all that pretty forest obliterated. sure is nice to see but so not nice to see. I mean, you get it. conflicted.

And we found a TREE that now needed a coat, because well, all the trees around it were now gone and it’s gonna be winter soon. So it grew one.