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<p>The mornings are truly beautiful looking across from the house to the valleys beyond and the cloud nestling there before it finally evaporates.</p>
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<p>It is a great start to the day.</p>
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<p>Our first task this morning was to cut down a dead madrone tree that was outside the house. Clive wanted it taken down so that it cleared the young redwoods around it and caused minimum damage. We came up with the idea of tying a winch cable around the top and as it was cut  in the usual way, winch it down from the mule. This worked perfectly and as I tensioned the cable with the electric winch it first leaned and then cracked and fell.</p>
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<p>After lunch I walked down to the upper pond and took some photographs of the flaura and fauna in the area. Although my Samsung S22+ phone has a very good camera it isn't best suited to capturing flowers and insects. I didn't do too badly as can be seen below.</p>
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