Day 38

I am tired tonight.  We got up fairly early.  It was semi cloudy and the wind was blowing.  That made it a fairly good day to work outside.  So after breakfast I put the pole saw together.  I couldn't use it though because I hadn't bought oil for it.  So it was off to Lowe's for oil. 

When we got back I used the saw to cut a few limbs off the trees in the back.  I also cut down a tree/bush in the area by the parking area.  I hauled up all the results to the burn barrel by hand.  That taught me I didn't want to do that anymore.

I decided to start on the trees on the side of the house.  I also got out the lawn mower and trailer to haul the stuff up to the burn barrel.  I worked for a couple of hours and got a good pile up to the burn barrel.  After lunch I had Ellen go out and start burning while I continued to cut.

By 4:30 I was literally too tired to stand.  I managed to get one tree taken down and another about half done.  Ellen burned about 2/3 of the stuff I produced.  The hose she was using leaked all over, so she was wet and dirty by the time she was done.

I went in and took a shower.  It took the rest of the evening to recover enough to go to bed.  I was even too tired to log on.

Tomorrow we have to respond to Gerry.  I might try to do a little more, but probably not much.  It's going to tak awhile to cut up the 14 trees that are left.  We need to get another hose, too.