TheBanyanTree: Wherein peter falls down a hole

[LaLinda]

Well, that's a terrifying train of thought. Yikes! Most people only go out
to get frozen yogurt or something before they disappear. At least they are,
in theory, choosing their destination, or maybe I'm recalling an episode of
the X-Files.

We are disappearing under snow, here. Not the same thing, but I will spread
word of the Norway technique as a AS A.

By the way, you weren't injured, correct?

L

On Wed, Jan 9, 2019, 11:38 PM peter macinnis <petermacinnis at ozemail.com.au
wrote:

> I have been gardening this past week, subduing a wild jungle of trees
> and weeds, and today's task was to trim the dead fronds on a  Canary
> Island palm in the garden. I grew up in a street lined with these, and I
> know that they have vicious spines, but I also know how to deal with
> them. I cut the fronds with loppers, and then chopped off the end 60 cm
> or 2 feet so all the spines are now in a bin. Later, I will cut off the
> leaves from the stalks and compost them
>
> For some time, there has been a deep depression in the garden near the
> palm, about a metre, three feet deep, and I have recently been filling
> it with all the fallen leaves, converting it into a compost pit.  Today,
> as I was trimming the dead fronds on that palm, I stepped onto/into the
> depression a couple of times, and the third time I did, the bottom of
> the hole gave way, and my leg plunged in.  Clearly, the leaves had been
> plugging the hole in an unsupported way.
>
> It was a bit like stepping into really deep snow as I did once in
> Norway, so I knew what to do: bend the knee and drop back to land on the
> thigh, so I only go knee-deep, and then scramble out. When I got out and
> started poking palm fronds in there, some of them went down to a depth
> of 3 metres, ten feet.
>
> It could have been nasty, but it wasn't. Just curious, because the
> geology here doesn't support sink holes.
>
> Enquiries have been set in train, but I have ruled out white rabbits.
>
> peter
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