Chainsaw Gardening?

I woke up to the loud POP outside my window, followed by the Slo-Mo crash.  Checked the clock and, woops, no light.  T'was 3AM.  The big walnut took out the entire electric service.  Hight voltage to the grid and transformer to my house.  Utility crew was here by 4:30. They chainsawed for half an hour in the driving rain just to get to the utility pole but they had me back on line by 7:30.  I was the lucky one. Many folks in thr DC area were out for several days in 100 degree heat. 

Chain saw in hand, I've uncovered my hem beds.  Mary Todd blooms are prolly trashed for this year.  The tree had several 4 inch grape vines in it.  I shoulda cut them out long ago but I loved watching the pileated wood peckers hanging on the thinest vines eating the grapes in the fall.  One year it was the cedar waxwings.  The walnut was probabbly hit by a microburst.  There were sizable limbs out of a nearby white ash also.

The top branches with their tangled vines are finally hauled of into the woods and the upper limbs are cut into fire wood.  (I found that working timber in this heat is an efficient way to loose pounds.) It is always hard to set the chainsaw into a beautiful walnut saw log.  There will be some beautiful crotch grain in this log but I have plenty of walnut lumber drying and sawyers don't like to mill logs from the yard of a residence.  I suppose that it will end up saving fuel oil and keeping me warm this winter.

BJ