American English, Italian Chocolate by Rick Bailey

Author:Rick Bailey [Bailey, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIO026000 Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs, LCO010000 Literary Collections / Essays
ISBN: 978-1-4962-0173-7
Publisher: UNP - Nebraska
Published: 2017-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

21

Chemical Neutral

“What you do,” the tree man says, “is get some Great Stuff. Fill the tree up with it to keep the water out of it.”

We’re standing beside an apple tree. Well, half an apple tree. We have three of them left, all senior citizens feeling their years. Our house sits on property that was part of a large orchard in the nineteenth century. Gradually most of our neighbors have cut down their apple trees. The one now reduced to half its former self has looked haggard and dry for a few years—part of it, anyway. This spring I was going to lop off a dead chunk of it. Then a wind storm came through the area. There were enough leaves in the tree for it to resist, but it lost its worse half. When I got up Father’s Day morning, there it was, broken, half the tree bowing to the grass. A deep hollow in the trunk yawned out of the gap, a void four inches in diameter and twenty-some inches deep. Before cooking lunch that Sunday, I cut the dead wood into pieces with my chain saw and hauled them to the road.

I’ve got a guy over to look at the tree.

He says, “Keep the water out, it’ll last a while.” He looks up at the tree, nods, and says, “Great Stuff.”

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