You Never Know What Lurks Behind Those Trees

I went to the lake the other day for the first time this year. I wanted to see the damage done by the winter. I decided to drive a new way and as I was driving along the road enjoying the scenery I came upon this. As you can see it is a tree across the road. Now I am no dummy and I have seen a lot of westerns where there is a tree across the road in front of the stage coach. The driver gets down to move the tree and out jumps the bandit and whacks him over the head and takes all the valuables. Being that there are many trees along this part of the road, there are plenty of places for that bandit to hide. So I sat in my car for a while surveying the woods to see if there was any movement. I saw nothing moving so I got out of the car and slowly walked toward the tree still looking into the woods and spinning three hundred and sixty degrees a couple of times just to be on the safe side. I bent down and put my hands around the tree and pulled upward. To my dismay nothing happened. I was unable to lift the tree. As a matter of fact I could not even budge the tree. I would not have thought it to be that heavy and I thought at least I would be able to push it aside enough to get past it. But I couldn't. So I got back in my car. There wasn't enough room to turn around. The hill went straight up on the right side and down on the left side. I had to go in reverse down the road until I got to a place where I could turn around. I made it and didn't get whacked either.