Where once there was a great oak . . . I mean a willow tree.
Stephen and Mariah called yesterday while I was visiting Susan, friend up the street, and said that an excavator was in the neighborhood, would I like to get the willow tree stump out of the front yard. I hardly gave it a thought and said YES! Didn't have an idea where Jon was, so I just made an executive decision. By the time I hustled home, Stephen was out there cutting down the last little bit of the tree so that it would be out of the way. I don't think he realized that it would take up most of his afternoon, and he did have things to do, but he wanted to help us take advantage of the opportunity. Mariah brought the boys over so they could watch the "house digger". That is so exciting to them since there was a change over in the neighborhood by Southwest Gas. Lots of digging, etc. to watch for weeks!
This afternoon Stephen took all the stuff to the dump, would you believe it all weighed 3,500 lbs.! The stump had to be loaded into the back of a dump trailer by the "house digger" and it had to be the dump trailer or no one could've pulled it out again. There were some more trunk and branches, but the stump was the main part of it. It took at least an hour, I think.
This would be Jon, hooking up the replacement for a cable the got a little bit snapped. He was tempted by my suggestion to just let the phone stay dead for a few days.
The supervisors, supervising ...
Lincoln, just proving he is all boy ...
being soothed by an excavator!
Root growing under the house ... YIKES!
the little light coloring cable would be the other end of the phone line that Jon is connecting in the first pic, shhhh!
Can you believe the size of
this root ball?!?!?
6 comments:
WOW that is one huge root ball! How awesome that you had the help and it's now gone.
You are very inspiring with all of this yard work your gettin done. I know your yard is going to be beautiful.
How exciting to get something done you've been waiting for. Congratulations on your accomplishment! And I love the picture of the boys supervising. Such cute little guys.
Wow, you guys have been busy around there! I can't believe how huge that tree it is. I just love a job well done, so satisfying. I am going to have to come by and see it in person.
WOW - what a lot of work. Good thing you have a great son-in-law! I was doubly impressed with the computer design of your project in the back! Way to go Stephen!
HOLY MOLY! That is some yard/house work you've been doing! When can we hire you to come to our house?
OK all you funny people, that was n't me that did all that stump work, poor Stephen got stuck with it all . . . oh, and Gabriel. he is so cute when he is helping Daddy. He go to pay his tithing today on what he got paid for helping extra!
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