Saturday Update

We had some storms last week with pretty strong winds. We found large branches from four trees broken off and needing to be cut and hauled off--this one by the compost pile and three others on the edge of the woods. So we dug out the chain saw that Andrew bought during the 9/11 crisis. (We were in Thailand, he was home, and a tree fell down across the road and driveway. Instead of calling someone, he bought a chainsaw and went after it himself, exercising his problem solving skills :-) Anyway, it took some doing to get the chainsaw running, including tearing it apart, but Gary did get it going and spent the day sawing.

After I got home from my tea party, I helped stack the wood that Gary had cut into bon-fire sized pieces.

Speaking of cutting trees down, here is a shot of this year's crop of toadstools that come up each year at the foot of a bit tree stump just behind the shed.