…Walk in the rain until wet. Repeat as necessary.

And the giant cookies (made of the former ash tree) have been baked into the existing tree-remains back fence, and the whole mess cleaned up. The back yard view is now much improved, and will only get better.

Counting the rings, the former towering ash tree appears to have been about 50 years old. And to think that a little green beetle could kill such a hard, hard, hardwood.