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Tree Surgery

March 30th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized

Yesterday I looked over our blog to review what we had posted in the past year so that we won’t repeat ourselves.  I counted the number of posts and there were 70!  I wondered if there would be anything new to share, but then Mark came in with a picture of what he had seen on his way home from school:

Since the photo was taken with a cell phone, it’s not the best quality, but if you look closely you’ll notice the man is high in the tree sawing off a limb, and he is barefoot.  After his surgical procedure, the tree was put on an IV to try to nurse it back to health:

We’re constantly amazed at the risks people take here…that along with other differences makes me think we may never run out of blog material!

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  • Tim

    It’s true, the IV is the solution to any illness over here. But who would’ve thought they would go so far as to IV a tree? China, you never cease to amaze me…

  • Laurie

    Was that IV supposed to be there? That’s so funny!

  • admin

    Oh yes, as Timothy said, the “injection” (IV) can be used to cure problems for people and trees. Not sure exactly what’s in the tree injection or if it really does anything…

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