Signs of spring - burn permit bought!

The snow is finally gone. It arrived on December 26th and it didn't leave until the 2nd week of March. That's a long stretch! So the weather is warming up and we can start on the yard work. We like to have our yard ready for summer by early May. Summer is too much fun to spend it working in the yard (besides the mowing of course)

Day 1 of the burn fest: front yard Just the little sticks that have fallen all winter.Then we decided to take down a tree that has been dead a few years. It didn't want to come down. And then it fell into the crook of another tree...

So, we had to get Chris' new truck & pull that tree around

Worked like a charm


It was a big tree!

And it made a nice pile of wood for our friend Peter.

It also made another big pile of branches that needed to be burned...

Day 2 of the burn fest: back yard

And we still have another big pile to go. So, we'll have to have day 3 of the burn fest another weekend.