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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hey! I wasn't foolishly bragging about no one
being able to call me a fool! I was foolishly bragging about being
able to make trees fall where I want them to, except the one time when I was a
fool and my foolish master plan didn't work, which would have caused me to look
foolish had anyone been fool enough to watch the foolish proceedings.
Of course, it <EM><STRONG>was</STRONG></EM> rather foolish to bring up my one
failure, but Dieter asked, so I foolishly answered, as any fool can plainly
see. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=comics230@cox.net href="mailto:comics230@cox.net">John T</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=groop@groo.com
href="mailto:groop@groo.com">groop@groo.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 13, 2009 6:16
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Groop] OT: Dieter's
Question</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> <A
href="mailto:groop-bounces@groo.com">groop-bounces@groo.com</A>
[mailto:groop-bounces@groo.com] <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf
Of </SPAN></B>Gary Grossmann<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tuesday, May 12, 2009 1:08
PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B>
groop@groo.com<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re:
[Groop] OT: Dieter's Question</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><BR> <BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dieter
wrote: </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><BR> <BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">> And
just how often have you managed to make a tree fall where you want <BR>> it
to..... ;)<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Every
frickin' time...except once...as you may recall from last year when I
wrote:</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><BR> <BR></SPAN></FONT><EM><I><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I tried to
cut down a giant, completely out of control, big leaf maple that is just a
couple feet from my shed that doubles as a pump house. The tree has 12
stalks that range in size from 6" to darn near a foot in diameter and half of
them lean to one degree or another over my shed. I am very good at
getting trees to fall where I want them to with my trusty axe and buck saw,
but this presented a special challenge which, it turns out, I was
not</SPAN></FONT></I></EM><EM><B><I><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">
</SPAN></FONT></I></B></EM><EM><B><I><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">quite</SPAN></FONT></I></B></EM><EM><I><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> up
to. I made one miscalculation and…well, as Groo would say, "Did I
Err?" </SPAN></FONT></I></EM><I><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><BR></SPAN></FONT></I><FONT
face=Verdana size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I had
predicated getting several of the stalks to swing just far enough away from
the shed by using one of the other stalks as a pivot point. It turned
out not to be strong enough enough and so all four started leaning towards the
shed, with two leaning up against it. The pivot stalk at least kept the
others from crashing onto it. I was able to climb up onto the shed,
quickly cut off some big branches, push the stalks away as they
fell, and got away with only a couple of nicked shingles. If I had done
a couple fewer chops or been a little quicker climbing onto the shed even that
wouldn't have happenned. </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Verdana
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><BR> <BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">It
retrospect, it was a two man job. But the nice thing about doing these
kind of things by yourself is that when you make a complete fool of yourself,
there is no one around to see it. </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Verdana
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><BR> <BR></SPAN></FONT><st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Gary</SPAN></FONT></st1:place></st1:City><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> "The Shed
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