Q: We cut back our pine trees and sap dripped everywhere. It is now dry and staining the deck. Any suggestions? A: Sap from trees — pines or others — is a real problem on decks, especially after it ...

You wipe the sweat out of your eyes with a sap-stiffened glove, clinging tightly with your other hand to the one live branch, thick as a hammer handle, that is keeping you up here and alive, 30 feet ...