That's how it looked to us down under
The best I could do with turning a standing tree into furniture would be to cut it down so it landed on the lounge room
. #skillz.
There was a former politician a couple of years ago who floated the idea of receiving unemployment benefits (the dole) being conditional upon having a contraceptive implant so they wouldn't just couch surf and pump out large numbers of tax-hoovering clone kids. It didn't get very far but by the same token was not screeched down by the professionally outraged either. It was like no one wanted to touch the issue for various reasons.
How about try your hand at slabbing a few of the bigger (even some of the smaller) ones and then you'll have at least a year to work out what you can do with them while they are drying? Outdoor table? A bookcase? Even a workbench for the shed, etc. You'll surprise yourself how easy it is.
Fair warning - I'm about to rant...
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We've had about a month of screaming banshees and perennially aggrieved 'victims' and their professional advocates apoplectic at the treatment dished out by our state family/child protection organisation that has been removing at-risk kids from some terrible environments. Those kids didn't deserve to be born into dysfunction yet the avaricious media and compliant if not complicit public focus almost exclusively on children being ripped from their mothers arms.
This boils my blood for so many reasons. I can't help but consider society these days a disgrace. An abject failure on so many levels.
Whether we are able or prepared to even see or acknowledge it, so many of us are pinning our lives and those of our children on ground that's crumbling and on the edge of an abyss that will swallow almost all of even the solid let alone flaky foundations we've relied upon for generations. When the tide recedes in this recession that's already begun those swimming naked will be exposed as will our moral bankruptcy.
Will we find a way through? Will anyone even care beyond circling the wagons and trying to protect our immediate families? Frankly, I'd like every PC handwringer and parasitic speculator to be consumed in the wildfire. You have no idea how badly I want some people to burn for their roles in promoting the conditions that have eroded the foundations too many of us take for granted. I mean it, you have no idea of the depths of my contempt, my seething stemming from watching society careen towards the abyss with gay abandon.