More wind!

 Storm Barbara blew though with a LOT of wind but no rain. We didn’t get much sleep with it whistling and banging round the house.

Yet more trees have been splatted, a couple on the drive, one by the stables and one on the road at the bottom. Fortunately (for us anyway) the neighbors cleared the one off the road so cars can pass, but we will have to go tomorrow and move what we can of the rest of it. The biggish root ball we might need to rely on either the mairie or the kind services of the neighbors again.

These on the drive are not very wide but quite tall. You can kind if make out that Doug is cutting the tops here. 

Some friends arrived to pick up some strawberry plants and kindly helped move branches while Doug cut them so we could get out to our French lesson a bit later!

Fortunately these missed the stables. Doug had taken off various branches in the year, so that helped.