The last of the pinyon pine.....

 7:47 am - Wednesday - January 28th - TWW - 30° F, humidity 22%, cloud cover 57%, wind 5 mph out of the east by southeast.....mostly cloudy today with a forecast high of 56° F.  The view this morning....

....and on this date in 2016 TLE and I were at Prison Hill Brewing.....

Deep fried avocados...OMG!

.....in Yuma, AZ.  The next day I had a dental appointment in Los Algodones for a root canal, and a dental post installation....kind of like 'The Last Supper' for me....lol!

When we first arrived at TWW back in late October one of the first things we did was to trim back the fallen pinyon pine tree away from the driveway, and water tower....here is what it looked like then just after we had cut it back just enough to get it out of the driveway....

Then (October 2025)

....when I asked TLE what she thought we should do Tuesday she suggested finishing the job of cutting up, and removing what was left of the dead pinyon pine, so that's what we did when we headed outside around 11:30 am.....

About half way done

Done!

Now (January 2026)

....as you will recall, pinyon pines used to dominate the landscape, but over the last 100 years the incursion of the juniper, which suck up a lot of water, has gradually killed all the pinyon pines on TWW.  There are places in this area where they still flourish, but as time progresses their population will continue to yield to the juniper. Over the course of two hours, using the 20" bar Stihl chainsaw, we cut up the dead tree, and hauled it away.  Frankly, I thought it would take much longer, and if it had been just me doing everything it would easily have taken 4-5 hours, but with TLE's help things go so much faster.  We really work well together cutting wood.

We also trimmed some branches back on the juniper tree which borders the new site for Phyllis' Newell so when we do move the Newell the branches will not be close to it.  The site is 10' x 40', and the Newell is 8' x 38' so the pad is the perfect size....

.....plus some branches from one of the junipers in the middle of the circular driveway....

.....which were hanging over said driveway.  We finished it all close to 2 pm, and called it a workday.

Our overnight low Tuesday evening was just 27° F, and while still quite cold, a far cry from 17° F.  Daytime temps will continue to warm into the 60's as the week progresses.  So far, at least to us, this winter seems a little milder than last winter as far as snow goes.  As far as rain goes, we've had a lot more than last winter, however, right now the roads are quite dry, which is a good thing.

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