My friends kids when they were little could not pronounce my name, try as they might they kept saying Chrishashton, later becoming Crashton. No negative connotations were implied for Crash. My younger days my buds called me Bear Ashton. I do like the idea of an earned treebuzz nickname...
I'm not too in the up and up in NH but I've heard rumors there's a Huge ash eradication brewing. I'll share some of this at my next conservation meeting.
By gum get a circular saw and cut the deck wood around the base. It's like when I go pet a strangers dog to find out the collar's so tight I can barely get a finger through.