End of an Era

For the past 14 years we have kept a freshwater aquarium. But in our current house, there is no good spot for it: everywhere we’ve tried, sunlight levels cause excessive algae growth. This puts it solidly on the wrong side of the work vs. enjoyment balance. So we made a decision last fall to not replace fish as they died. This week we lost the last 2 fish, and today I am cleaning everything up in preparation for finding it a new home.

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Rings

The elm tree we had to have taken down was, by my count, 59 years old. About 10 years worth of rings on the outside are much narrower, telling me that’s when it started to become less healthy.

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Cookies

We had a dead tree taken down today. I asked them to leave me a couple of wood cookies, 6″ thick slices of trunk. I’ll make a couple of rustic outdoor tables from them. Currently they’re wet and the larger one weighs more than I do, and they’re bound to split as they dry. But I think they’ll make nice outdoor tables.

 

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Bonus picture: the trunk these came from.

 

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