There’s so much “free firewood” around just now, each day during the cleanup one can hear chainsaws, and along the roads people are loading up cars, trucks, horse drawn carts, little cycle-driven boxy things on two wheels, even a motor cycle sidecar.

We were lucky. We are among many who have roll down shutters here, and our windows were protected. Only last week I commented how lovely our peppermint tree was looking out the front – now 2/3 of it is twisted off and down on the street. (pictured – we occupy the middle unit of this triplex) To the right of this photo a fir of some kind is bent in half, slumped over the wires on a power pole, but it all continues to work OK. These Uruguayan power people could show our chainsaw-happy Western Power employees a thing or two about power lines and trees, and how they DON’T need to be hacked and massacred into the wild improbable shapes you see round some of our Perth suburbs. And, this week’s storm aside, here we don’t suffer anywhere near the amount of power outages that we do in Perth. Anyway, time now to do another spell with the yard broom….
PS firewood a guy with a chainsaw chopped up the major branches friday… I am assured this does not need a year or two to dry out, it’s great for fireplaces right now.