Madi Fore
Looking around outside there’s a million things I could have taken a picture of and wrote about but this tree right here has a lot of meaning to me and my family.
This tree was about 80 feet tall and had thousands of long branches and pine cones hanging off of it in all different directions until my dad turned it into this (I know it looks ridiculous).
We moved into this house before I was even born, my dad was even hesitant to move in because the tree was so old and literally looked like it was about to collapse onto the house. Every storm or even with heavy winds it was very scary because we were scared of the tree falling and going right through the roof. Sadly a couple years later it did happen.
My family and I were away at a softball tournament and since it got cancelled from the weather, we all went home and once we pulled up at the house the roof was basically missing. It was crazy how one tree could do so much damage. It was very scary and alot of our things were damaged, but luckily none of our pets were hurt. A couple months later everything was repaired and back to normal.
The tree itself broke a little but was still pretty tall and my dad came to a point where he wanted it gone and the funny thing was he wanted to do it all himself. No one knew why he wouldn’t get people to come cut it down. One day when my sister and I came home from school we saw the tree like this. I thought it was so creative and so cute. Just by looking at it, you can tell my dad put in a good amount of work to make it look like this. He also named it “May 4th” because that’s the day it fell on the house which I thought was creative.
Even though it looked just like any other pine tree, it does have its own story.
Thanks, Madi, for this one-of-a-kind post. I really like how your last sentence — “Even though it looked just like any other pine tree, it does have its own story.” — ties the piece together with the title, and the story itself is unique and well told.
And that picture is priceless. I think it’s safe to say I’ll never see a picture quite like that ever again.
Hope you’re well.
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I really like the title ” Everything has a story” this is very true because everything has a meaning behind it. Sorry about your house nature can be beautiful but also can be very dangerous. This post was well written and I really enjoy reading it. My favorite part of this post was how the tree was decorating I found it to be very funny.
Hope you and your family are doing well.
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“Even though it looked just like any other pine tree, it does have its own story.”
I felt this part of you writing because I feel that every ordinary thing may have its own story to tell! We just might over look something that could tell us something.
Sorry to hear about the house but cool stump!
-kevin tucker
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I was really interested in reading your piece. I loved the part talking about how your dad wanted to be the one to cut it down. It shows that there is good in every bad situation. The tree stump is really cute, it kind of reminds me of the trees they make look like people in Disney World. But your piece is true and something we probably don’t think of much, everything has a story.
Hope you’re doing well!
– Mikaela
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This is so cool wow I love that! This piece was so easy to read and had a good story telling flow.
Even though the tree unfortunately destroyed some of the things in/on your house, I’m so glad your dad kept some of it. He preserved it in such a unique way and yet beautiful because it doesn’t just look like a stump on a tree. The plants and flowers that surround it really make it stand out, and of course—the face. I hope you’re doing well, thanks for sharing your post!
-Ivellise
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