fenchurch | 29 June - Moving dead palm trees

When we first bought the house there were four palm trees in the yard, but three of them were dead (and, as near as we can tell, probably never grew after they were planted, since they were in areas with very little drainage and had likely drowned). The fourth is still thriving and, in fact, seems to be growing since we gave it some palm tree fertilizer earlier this year... but a few months ago, we went out front to discover that one of the dead palms had fallen over. So, we hauled it down to the carport and

rackham checked out the next one in line, only to discover that it fell over easily with just a slight shove. He gave me the opportunity to do the same with the last dead palm and it went over just as easily. So, three dead palm trees stacked up in the carport... and it occurred to us on Sunday afternoon that if we moved them out of the carport and over to the other side of the house, we'd have covered parking for our two cars AND my in-laws' car.

Palm tree trunks are surprisingly heavy. I'd originally thought that between the two of us we could just carry them over, one at a time. Ha! Thankfully, we have a good wheelbarrow and Rackham was able to make quick work of it. We're still not sure how we're going to get rid of the trunks... they're dense enough that chopping them up isn't going to be easy and they may actually be too big to fit in my little SUV to haul them to the dump.