Timber!

It started out innocently enough. Invited my Mom over to pull a few weeds, trim a few tree branches, take out the Yew bushes at the future hummingbird garden site, and try out the new tiller out front to work in the manure.

Verdie brought the chain saws and carried them to the house with a crazed look in his eyes. Started in the back to thin out one of our many overgrown maple trees. Here it is very tall and outgrown.

Dismantling of a tree is alot harder than I'd ever imagined it to be. To start off,Verdie cut up a piece that last years storm already pruned out for us. Then the fun began. He was cutting into a large limb and the chain saw was screaming for more. The excitement was building as we saw parts of the tree moving on there own, then some cracking, and finally the large limb was coming straight for the ground! What an awesome site!

Can you believe one limb of this large maple equals half the tree? I am still trying to grasp this. Verdie continued on cutting up the limb into smaller parts, with me helping to hold the larger ones. Stacked up as we went along until it was all cleaned up. Luckily the falling limb only damaged one other plant when it fell. The butterfly bush there needed to be trimmed anyways!

Finally got over to cutting down the overgrown Yew bushes next to the patio, my main objective. These weren't as exciting as watching the tree limb come down, thou. I am very disappointed that the pictures for this part didn't take. Now there is much work still to be done to clean out the debris.