Yesterday, Bob Gronko sent a picture of the bowl he made from a cherry log.
![[Cherry bowl Bob Gronko made from one of these cherry logs]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-03-27--cherry-bowl-bob-gronko/fbmany.jpg)
Cherry bowl Bob Gronko made from one of these cherry logs
He took a couple of the logs you see in this picture.
They came from the cherry tree I had to cut off the top of the corn crib after Hurricane Helene blew it onto there. Continue reading
Oops. That oak tree insisted on going south when I cut it down. It made a big dent in the tractor shed roof.
It broke off the end of one roof truss. But the main truss and the plate it is sitting on are undamaged. So it’s fixable, and not so bad meanwhile. Continue reading
After I chainsawed a cherry tree off the corncrib and dropped some cherry logs on the boat rack, I screwed it back together almost straight.
![[Rebuilt boat rack almost straight]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2024-11-27--boat-rack-cherry-logs/20241127_112033.jpg)
Rebuilt boat rack almost straight
We used child labor to roll out the resulting cherry logs. Continue reading
Yet another clearing task after Hurricane Helene: get that cherry tree off the corn crib roof.
![[Sawing from the top --Gretchen Quarterman]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2024-11-17--chainsawing-cherry-tree-off-corn-crib-roof/IMG_7910.jpg)
Sawing from the top –Gretchen Quarterman
It was a nice Prunus serotina, but it would not survive like that, and we could not leave it to cause more damage during the next big storm. Continue reading
![[Roof damage]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2024-11-27--oak-roof-damage/20241127_112048.jpg)