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Talking about "isolating" factors: You talk about "Old people" as they were one thing. There is one Hell of a difference between an obese old American and an old Okinawan, who gets up every morning and does his Karate work out.

Money probably helps, too.

I'll dig one when I retire. Should keep me from dying of boredom.

Never! An old apprentice of mine did that. The mail order bride wanted to show the folks back home, that the guy, she was sold to, at least provided her with a nice place to live. Since land is extremely expensive in Schweiz, because most of it is near vertical, they were quite impressed.

Right behind the yellowish field behind the house. That is just the narrow tip of it, it gets bigger going left in the picture.

When I turned semi professinally and milled, there were lots of thick boards and blanks stored under the back part of that shed. Stuffed to the top in fact. I sold all that when I thought I was moving to Schweiz, and it paid for my "honeymoon" in Western US in 2014. Now the mower and other...

Yes and yes.

No! But now that you brought it up, I will. Thanks.

It is hanging on. We planted a replacement to the opposite side of where the old one is going to fall. The frigging Roe deer tried to eat it for lunch, so I had to fence it. Not a benefit of training your dog to not chase wildlife!!!

Best I can do is this: The house is nothing special, build ovcer several periodes by poor people. I have rebuild most of it in the almost 30 years, I've lived here. The roof was originally thatched, that was changed just after WW2, I rebuilt the whole upper part in 2006 with a shingle roof...

As in : " The farrier's horse and the shoemaker's kids came into a bar"?

What you may not know about Andreij's situation is that he works in Saint Petersburg. Under the name of Leningrad, it was victim of a really bad siege under WW2. During winter all trees in the city were cut down and used for firewood. After the war they replanted and in trying to find something...

Thanks Fi. Between friends, indeed.

Thanks :)

It was the unusual amount of commas that had me worried. Posting here has improved my English no end. Thanks.

I need a bit of help. "I'm figuring that posting pictures of this on, say, Treebuzz, would have me burned at the stake." What would be the correct way of writing this. Did my best, but to my eye it doesn't look right.

The certified arborist's apple tree! The old apple tree behind my house has finally come to an end. From what I can find out, the tree was planted when the House was built, 1846. It has been ailing for some years, as you can see; a third broke off 3 years ago. The rest is full of different...