TeePees R Us

Here's a picture of me, pooped after the weekend. I spent many hours fighting with branches and scrub in the back garden. Everything was dead before we started, I hasten to add. All the branches and thickety-type stuff was just picked up from the side of the road where people had trimmed their trees and shrubs. I can state absolutely and categorically that nothing used by me, in the back garden came from any natural woodland or even community park. (I notice that on 'The Mountain' Mount Royal, there is a lot of good woodsmanship going on; logs being left to rot into the ground and a natural state prevailing.....and it is by design and not by accident or laziness ye sceptics)
So over the past couple of weeks it has not been an uncommon sight to see me traipse the streets of Montreal, dragging maple branches behind me. It is worth noting, as an aside, that the average Montrealer at large doesnt bat an eyelid at these strange toings and froings. Or indeed any other odd activity; the wet night I went up to the chip shop on Saint Laurent wearing my flannel pyjamas provoked only the merest whisper of a raised eyebrow from one or two who were caught off guard.
Anyway, at the weekend I set to with my branches and prepared to make a teepee. The garden is very bare and the idea is that I make an artificial thicket, in a teepee shape, to house small birds in the winter....not remotely as easy as it sounds btw...the website (See A Warm Winter Home)said to interleave the branches at the top...not a hope in hell...use fishing wire and tie the sods together...Anyway wrecked..camera charging...photo pending..