Clean Up Day…Country Style
We have been itchin’ to get outside and do some spring cleaning. But the weather has not been cooperating. It’s just been too dang cold for me to work outside take pictures of my husband working outside. heh!
Unfortunately, part of the
clean up involves cutting down trees. In our part of the world, cutting down a tree is serious business…we usually have a funeral when a tree dies.
We love and treasure each and every tree on the ranch. And before any one of our trees is cut down it has to be dead. Not just dead, but double dead. Sometimes we even wait a year or more, just hoping it might magically come back to life. That line of thinking is mine. Not my husband’s. He wanted me to make that clear to you, because he doesn’t really go for the magic and fairy dust stuff, like me. He’s such a stick-in-the-mud.
Ok, back to the tree business…sorry, you all know how easily I get distracted.
Do to the severe drought our area has suffered over the last few years, more and more trees are lost.
This particular tree was smack dab in the middle of our back yard. It was an old elm, and we hated to see it go….but it’s time had come.
My husband is a one-man-show, so he tackled this on his own.
He started off on the ladder, cutting off some of the lower branches.
My job was to stand back with my hand on my cell phone….you know, in case I needed to call 911. Also, I needed take pictures, and stuff.
So, here we go!
Look out belowwwww!
Hmmmm. I think he may be wishing he hadn’t started this little project.
I assured him he was doing a good job and we would have this job done in no time at all.
TIMMMBBBEERRR!!
Now it’s time for the clean-up crew.
I was helping with this part. Really, trust me…ahem.
How about a before and after?
Before…
After….
THE END.
12 Comments
TexWisGirl
poor old tree… i treasure every one of ours, too. we lost a lot of cedars in our drought a year ago. still haven't cut 'em out…
dcash
I totally understand 🙁
HickChickBritt
Did you guys rip out the stump or grind it? Haha we used to own a tree service and it is what my husband went to school for.
dcash
Funny you should ask! My father-in-law brought his stump grinder from Oklahoma 🙂
MTWaggin
Sad to lose trees in any sense but having a big old dead elm that might decide to tumble on you is equally bad. Love the pictures and you have great workers there! 🙂
dcash
You are so right!
Michelle Jackson Rowe
Love this… in the UK you aren't allowed to cut trees down without permission from the council and then you have to have a 'professional' do it for you, it takes forever, costs an insane amount of money and so I have never actually seen it happen before… great pics!
dcash
Oh wow! Thanks for sharing that!
Michelle Jackson Rowe
Love this… in the UK you aren't allowed to cut trees down without permission from the council and then you have to have a 'professional' do it for you, it takes forever, costs an insane amount of money and so I have never actually seen it happen before… great pics!
pattisjarrett
That looked like a pretty big job to me! Glad you did your part and got pics. 🙂
Dianna
I agree: looks like a big job. He couldn't have done it with you!
Ross Taylor
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