26 April 2015

Spent the entire day taking down six beech trees on the north side of the house and cleaning up the resulting detritus.  The annual burn pile already is quite large!  The good news is that none of the six trees hit the house, the wood shed, or the sauna on their way to terra firma.  The bad news is that I hung up two of them.  The worse news is that the first tree I tried to fell hung up worse than any tree I’ve ever hung up before.  Took every logging trick and tool I possess and the entire morning just to get that one tree on the ground without serious bodily injury or catastrophic property damage.  As the sun was setting, enjoyed the first G&T of the summer with Kate… which did wonders to alleviate the aches, pains, and tension from a strenuous and somewhat stressful day.