Perry's parents asked to store their 5th wheel on our property so we arranged to meet them in Fountain Green. They also were willing to help with some work at the house. They said they could bring their chain saw to help take out some of our dead trees. Because no one lived in the house for about 9 months and renters in it for quite awhile before that, the yard and trees had not been watered. Some of the trees are way to large for us to remove but there were several that were small enough for us to cut down ourselves.
When Brady and Miah lived in the house, Brady removed limbs from this one in the front yard.
This pine tree was dead.
These three on the edge of my garden in the backyard needed removed.
We also removed a little stand of quakies on the side that were dead.
So we went to work. Perry and his Dad cut them down and then his Mom and I hauled branches to the burn pile and stacked big pieces in the wood shed.
I was tending my granddaughter, Ryah, for the week so she came with us and she was a big help. She hauled branches that were taller than she was and almost as big around.
All down and gone.
After we had them all removed and the wood hauled to the burn pile we lit a big bonfire. We had been piling up branches and weeds for the whole summer and it was quite a big pile. Flames were about 12 feet high.
Where's the hot dogs?
I had seen several little fires being burned in the area and thought that since it was October, we were ok to burn it. Perry cleared weeds around the area and we brought the hose over. A few minutes in the fire chief showed up. "Can't burn til November," he said. But he was cool about it. Just stayed and visited for about an hour until it was almost burned out.
We still have more to remove but most are too large for us.
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