david and marta's bloggy blog

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Sunday, October 18, 2009

tree felling

after last weekend's warm-up session, we were ready to take down the old crab apple tree in our backyard. it drops crab apples and leaves all summer, and is well past prime.

theran came over to lend a hand with his engineering, climbing, and sawing expertise. here he is perched high atop the tree, as he excises a number of the higher branches.

today we cut the wood into manageable segments, and split it all for use in our fireplace*. now we are ready for a long wisconsin winter.
*we managed this part without theran's help.

the tree stump is going to become a table base next spring.

5 comments:

Bonita said...

the picture of you two is sooooo adorable

smoothdave said...

Why did you go all Mr T on your tree? Why do you hate the environment?

dwstaple said...

what do you have against renewable energy sources?

Maggie said...

Nice family picture. Do you always dress alike? That's cute.

marta said...

maggie, please note that david is wearing blue gloves and i am not. that is a difference. a small difference, but a difference nonetheless.