Rain Dance

Today was the big day to cut down the 60ft tree that was in the way of parking the motor home.  It wasn't that big of a tree in diameter, but was about the size of a telephone pole and straight as an arrow.  It had a slight lean and I decided to drop it the way it leaned.  After careful calculations and measurements, it was time to take it down.   Luckily, it fell where I wanted it to fall and stopped about a foot from taking out Gerry's clothes line.  Like I said above, careful calculations, etc.

Jack and I started to cut it into fireplace lengths as quickly as possible since it fell across the road.  There is only one couple living down the road and they were gone for the day, but I wanted to finish it quickly.  After cutting it up the kids loaded the firewood into the back of Cassie & Jack's pickup truck and then stacked it in the firewood area.  Another job well done.

Meanwhile, Gerry was up to her pyro tricks again today and burning more old branches.  She had a blazing fire going and was making great progress when the thunder started up.  Then it started to rain once again and I think Gerry has some magical powers to call in the rain whenever she starts a fire.  It was a short rain and the fire kept going, so after it stopped she began to feed the fire again.  Later on after dinner it really came down cats and dogs for a half hour or more.  So much for the fire after that downpour..

All the above managed to take us about 4 hours and shoot down Sunday once again.  We finally are ready to bring the motor home up to the cabin and hopefully pick it up on Tuesday.  It should be ready on Monday, but we have plans for then and can't take the time to go there and bring it back home.   We will be able to wash clothes and have access to stuff in the motor home.  It is amazing how many times we need something and it's in the motor home.  We have most of what we really need here at the cabin so it hasn't been that difficult..