Shade tree wool processor

It felt good to spend the afternoon in my office. The weather was perfect and the oak tree is almost through dropping all the pollen, so I got set up for skirting wool fleeces, later this will be where I set up for drying wool. The shade of this oak tree is also where beans are broken or shelled, corn shucked and tired feet rested. At dinner (lunch) time, many a pick-up truck tries to squeeze under the shade. I had many trees in the yard when we first built here, but time, wind and disease have taken all but the old red oak, one leaning hickory and a few young trees I have planted. The old black jack oak tree used to chain hound dogs over the years came down with a scaly bark disease last year and had to be removed. A good hound has to be chained or he will run himself to death, hit by a car or get stolen by someone that knows you have the best squirrel dog in the county.