It’s the time of year for tidying jobs. Cutting back and cutting down. This walnut tree is now dead. It is waiting for Pablo’s chainsaw. Unfortunately walnut is not good wood to burn – it creates a lot of smoke and burns too quickly – and so this tree will be cut down and wood reserved for other uses. It isn’t a big enough trunk to be commercially viable, unlike an earlier walnut tree we cut down which produced enough timber for a table for a neighbouring carpenter. 5 to remember
condenado/a – condemned
una motasierra – a chainsaw
reservado/a – reserved
el tronco – the trunk [tree]
un/a carpintero/a de madera – a carpenter [of wood]