The Living Dead: Mountain Style

Over the weekend, some friends drove up to the cabin and helped with dropping another tall fir tree and chunking it up into rounds for firewood. The tree was equivalent to the living dead. Though somewhat alive at the very top, at the base the tree was mostly dead and rotten—to the point I feared wind would topple it sooner rather than later.

We fully processed the tree after dropping it—first, whacking branches into manageable lengths and either stacking them into piles or directly submitting them to a bonfire. We then sawed the trunk into rounds and stacked them to dry through summer’s months of hard-pressing sun.

Once we had the tree fully processed, we stuffed foil-wrapped potatoes and kielbasa into the coals of the fire and sipped cold beers until the coals cooked our early afternoon feast to perfection.

The tree is already providing.

Thank you, friends!

Evaluating the Tree Before Dropping It

Tree Down

Desiree at Work

—Mitchell Hegman