Here are some of the videos I took of our trees coming down. (August 28th- it only took me a month and a half to get these up!) We thought it was pretty cool when they came down! I love the big THUNK when the trees hit. It is amazing to watch. We had quite the crowd to see them come down. I think the grown -ups were more fasinated than the kids..
It was amazing to see how this son/dad crew can use their kabota tractor and know exactly where to cut and where they are going to get the tree to land!

3 Bears and a Fish

Here is what Ray has been doing the last few weeks while the sun is shining... trying to get all of the tree limbs to the dump before the rains start. We had the trees cut down about a month ago and he has been working on it a little bit every night. This is his 7th run to the dump.

We sold some of the big chunks of wood to a guy who makes carvings out of them. He paid us and also in exchange cut down some of our stumps and carved 3 bears and a fish for us. He is coming back in a couple of weeks to finish the fish and carve an eagle on the back side of the stump with the fish and the bear. Very cool! We are loving our back yard. It is soo big and open! Can't wait until it is done, Ray said, I'm not sure what I'll be doing when this is done,.... don't worry dear I'll come up with another project for you to do! :)

Just starting the carving. The only sad thing was I wasn't there to watch it. (Melissa and I were walking for the breast cancer walk- another post)

The tree stump was soo heavy that it tipped the trailer, luckily 2 of our neighbors were out and they came and helped roll it further into the trailer. Good job on the picture taking, Keagan!




All of these big sticks are from the tree!

Sunshine poking through our backyard!

You can tell how huge these pieces were!

Here they are trying to figure out how to best get them to their trailer!