A tree next to our driveway died. It needed to be cut down – before it fell down into the power lines – and today Mr. Brett and Josus did just that.

This is a picture of Joe suspended from the crane arm in a swing, wielding a chainsaw:

He’s much higher up than it looks; the land slopes off sharply on that side of the driveway.

It took hours to cut the crown off and to finally get the tree down. When it finally fell, I felt the ‘thud!’ quite clearly through the floor. It was pretty heavy, to say the least.

Aren’t boys cool? They actually seemed to enjoy the whole process!

I fed them pork chops and frozen pizza and a giant salad with bleu cheese crumbled all over the top for dinner. After all, they’d made breakfast (scrambled eggs with veggies, hash browns, coffee with Bailey’s, corned beef hash, and veggie bacon strips) and cut down a whole tree, so cramps or not I owed ’em!