Another Saturday Project...

that got way out of hand.

It all began with huge branches falling out of our tree and our neighbors coming to rescue us by chopping them up and distributing the branches in green barrels throughout the neighborhood. Then Brother Hansen said he would help us chop down the one big branch that needed to go...and Brother Schnepf offered his chain saw... and so it began!

See the big branch off to the right that could fall on our house? Yep, that one needs to go. So we started there.
Adam climbed the tree and tied a rope to pull the branch away from the house.
Then Brother Schnepf stopped by with a chain saw. "It will be easy" he said and promptly got volunteered to go up and chop it off.

Here it comes....see the men making sure it doesn't hit the house?
Perfect landing.

Then Adam climbed to the other side and started chopping out the dead limbs.

We got a little carried away.

What a hunk...or is that ham?

It turned into such a big project and as we were feeling overwhelmed here came our neighbors the Ethington's, then the Fischer's, then the Woolf's (and all their green barrels). We filled 7 green barrels and a trailer full of branches! It turned into a block party. I should have taken pictures of such hard workers and wonderful people. We couldn't have done it without them!

Here it is, the naked tree!

It looks so much better and with some luck, we won't have any gigantic branches falling on our house! Before:
After! Whew! Much better.