... yes, that's the roof over the earth oven. I'm thinking I'll just leave it and repair the roof around it - it would make a nice "natural" touch. I'm not sure I could dig it out anyway - that was a long ways to the ground for a big chunk of wood like that. The tree it came off has a history of breaking at the top. A large chunk broke off a couple of years ago. Near the top, the tree is forked from previous breaks (two since we've been here). This particular tree is our only grand fir - all our other evergreen are Douglas firs. Except for sending huge masses hurtling to the ground at high speed once in a while, it's really a beautiful tree.
Here's the area around the cabin - another tree top fell on the cherry tree and took off a chunk of that, too (just to the left rear of the shed):
... and that was just the wind. We've had a lot of rain, too. And I'm just talking about this month. Last month (November), we had record rainfall, snowfall and low temperatures. Good thing we live in a relatively mild climate!
When we built the house, we put it up in the open area where large projectiles can't fall on it every time there's a little wind!
