Day 264

Today was a good day.  I got u as soon as the alarm went off.  After pet duties and breakfast I got out the chainsaw and strung the wire so I could cut down the tree that was laying on the back fence.  The tree was on the neighbor's side of the fence and had been dead and rotten for years.  The tree trunk was about 12 inches in diameter.  It was held off the fence by a 6 inch branch that reached over the fence.  I had to decide which it cut first.  I decided to do the branch.  It was a good choice.

When I cut the branch the trunk cracked a little and leaned about a foot towards the fence.  I reached over and used it away from the fence.  It broke off at the ground and fell away from the fence.  Something I thought was going to take half an hour to an hour was done in minutes.

The dead tree also had an 8" second trunk.  It was leaning towards the fence, but held up by a small tree.  That wasn't going to last long term, so I reached the pole saw through the fence and cut it off as close to the ground as possible.  When I cut through it was still hanging on the small tree.  So I pushed it off with the pole saw.  Problem solved.  I finished up by throwing a couple of the broken branches back over the fence.

All in all I was done in about an hour for something that I though could have taken a big part of the morning.  I was still soaked with sweat when I was done.  The temp was near 80 with 90% humidity.

We surfed the rest of the morning away.  I did get another squirrel, which gave Lucy an excuse to run all over the back for quite awhile.  After lunch we went to an estate sale that looked really good on the web.  We got there about 1:30.  It had started at 9 and it looked like locusts had hit the place.  Almost all of the cool stuff pictured on the web was gone.  I scored though.  Tucked in the corner was a compressor just like the one I keep in the trailer.  It was $45 and I bought it.  I've always wanted a second one.  I can't believe I would ever see another one.

On the way back we stopped at the post office and ran the dog at the soccer park.  She did 11 retrieves in really hot weather.  She's really tired tonight and won't be doing any tomorrow.

The rest of the day was hiding out from the heat.  The evening was watching a movie and a lot of TV.  I tried calling Mom for the second night in a row.  She didn't answer.