All in a days work

A few weeks ago, "my guy" decided to get busy on a project that was way overdue.

Trimmin' the tree out front.

 Our big tree had a lot of dead branches throughout

and it was way overgrown.

So Rick got out his trusty branch cutter

 and down came the first big dead branch

 followed by many more, eventually the whole yard was full of branches 

 It was a full days work, Gavin even chipped in 

Not sure what to think about a chain saw in his hands....yikes

I starteed...and kept a burning fire going all day long,

 so much of what Rick cut out was dry old dead stuff and It burned real good. 

The fire went from about noon till 9:00 pm.

The picture doesn't really do it justice, but it looked so much better 

after Rick was done with it.

Then there were the branches that weren't dead

we piled the bigger logs on the ground and Rick made a platform 

for the smaller branches which should be good for burning next summer.

Good to have this job done... hopefully a healthier tree next year.