Monday, September 30, 2013

Day 139: I'm a Lumberjack!

Today I cut up trees.  Our house sits on a lot that is almost two full acres.  As I have mentioned before our yard, front and back, is almost a full acre that leave an acre of forest behind our fence.  Today we are doing an oyster roast and we needed wood for our fire pit.

First I had to harvest the trees. I rounded up about 10 dead pines that were 12 to 15 feet long and not exactly light.  I carried them out of the woods and proceeded to cut them.  I had planned on trying to jog again afterwards but, believe me, after two hours of cutting wood for a fire you are going to get tired.

I literally had a pile of wood three feet high and almost three feet high.  In addition is also did some tree trimming since I had the ole chainsaw out.  So I was going up and down the ladder.  I didn’t have the energy left to jog let alone walk. 

Kelly took down our raised bed herb garden.  It wasn’t in a good spot and after two years of disappointment we decided to take it down.  It was 15 cubic feet of dirt that had to be moved approx. 50 feet to our garden.  She was worn out as well.

It was a beautiful night for a fire though and the family sat outside roasting oysters.  It was worth all the work.

Daily Recap:
Matt: 2 hours of yard work

Kelly: 2 hours of yard work too.  

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