1886 and My Personal Logger

We had the forest service guy over to evaluate our place for fire danger. Found out lots of limbs and a few big old dudes need to come down because of crowding and/or disease. Though Vern complains about how much work there is ahead, he has a silly little gleam in his eye when he revs up the chainsaw. As for me, I count the rings of each downed tree and think of all the years it lived. The one below was 129 years old. Put on it's first ring of growth in 1886 back when Grover Cleveland, Apache leader Geronimo, and Sigmund Freud were around and the same year someone named Karl Benz patented the world's first automobile in Mannheim, Germany!