In just one block, I counted six trees discarded along the curb. Although a sad sight, it is the sign of the times. I intend to drag one home, set it up in the back yard and offer a number of goodies for the birds. Think of the ways we could help the birds if all the trees provided food and protection from the elements for our fine feathers friends. Seems like a sensible thing to do, especially since the windchill the last few days have closed schools again because of the danger of frostbite for the kiddies walking to school. Windchill? Way below -38 Tuesday morning! Thursday, January 08, 2015
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In just one block, I counted six trees discarded along the curb. Although a sad sight, it is the sign of the times. I intend to drag one home, set it up in the back yard and offer a number of goodies for the birds. Think of the ways we could help the birds if all the trees provided food and protection from the elements for our fine feathers friends. Seems like a sensible thing to do, especially since the windchill the last few days have closed schools again because of the danger of frostbite for the kiddies walking to school. Windchill? Way below -38 Tuesday morning! 
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Gosh you have - 38 and we have + 38 Kate.. It's a crazy world in more ways than one.. I think your idea using the trees is brilliant, but don't get yourself too cold out there, it doesn't sound like you are quite 100% yet, take care and keep warm.
ReplyDeleteThe windchill has been frigid here too. I think that's a great idea to drag home a tree for the birds. I have live trees and shrubs in my yard and the birds are using them for sure!
ReplyDeleteI burn a pile of brush in the spring. The tree goes on the top. Symbolically. Am I bad????? If so, too bad! hahahahaha
ReplyDeleteGreat idea Kate. Just don't pull your back out dragging it.
ReplyDeleteThe birds will sing you an extra song or two, once spring arrives! Very thoughtful to provide a refuge and extra food for them.
ReplyDeleteHere in Vienna, apartment dwellers can leave the trees at various drop-off points and the city collects and turns them to mulch.
Yikes Kate, stay inside where it's warm!
ReplyDeleteWe haven't had a "real" tree in years but the last few years we did (in Texas) we got small live trees which we planted in our yard on Christmas morning. It worked pretty well. Lois' relatives have been telling us about the cold weather you're having in the Twin Cities...not fun!
ReplyDeleteyou're right about the birds taking shelter in them. good for you!
ReplyDeleteWe have a blue spruce in the backyard that was our Christmas tree twenty six years ago. It's now over twenty feet tall and has been the nursery for hundreds of baby birds of all kinds.
ReplyDeleteWe usually stand our tree in a snowbank in the back yard and let birds roost in it, near the feeders. This year there isn't enough snow to stand it up so we'll let it lie instead. The downside is that we then have to cut up the tree before we can leave it for pickup.
ReplyDelete...and I was quite sad about our temperature going near 0°C (32°F) for a couple of days! Now we are back at a steady 12°C (54°F)!
ReplyDeleteWhen my parents lived in cottage country here, Dad would prop the tree in a snowbank after the holidays, and it would stay upright through the rest of the winter. The birds seemed to like it.
ReplyDeleteHere they get gathered up and used twice as decoration and a sort of fencing at Winterlude.
Now THAT's cold!
ReplyDeleteI haven't had a live tree for decades. Small and fake works for me.
Around here we have places to take trees where they can be mulched. At least they're not going to landfill.
That is a good way to get more use out of the tree. Back in West Hartford, trees went out on a Sunday night and the town whisked them away the next morning. Out of sight, out of mind. In recent years, I have gone to artificial trees in both places.
ReplyDeleteThat is cold -38!. We have +10 C now! I have an artificial tree for some years now. All that dragging with trees over the street. I was fed up with it.
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