Author name: Gareth Harrier

The limb is falling! The limb is falling!

Everyone’s familiar with the story of “Chicken Little”, the pint-sized poultry who proclaimed “the sky is falling.” Well, he needs to get to work prognosticating about tree-limb failure. Most summers are complete with sporadic limb failure, but an added effect of this historically hot and dry summer has been an increase in what is often termed “sudden limb drop”.… Read More The limb is falling! The limb is falling!

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Hell hath no fury…

For centuries most people assumed the end of the phrase “Hell hath no fury” to be “like a woman scorned”. Clearly, either those people haven’t suffered through a Texas summer or some other state has jilted the poor Lone Star (odds are it’s California or New York.). During unusually hot years, I have to sit through yet another recounting from… Read More Hell hath no fury…

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