June 12, 2017 Cutting, Slicing & Dicing

A good start.

Starting on the tree
Saturday.

All done on Sunday & ready
 for slicing & dicing.

Friday 6/9. I finished splitting (dicing) all the rounds that JB had cut (sliced).  He drove the wood to the wood shed and I stacked it all.

Forgot to mention that I saw a very long bull snake almost up at the peak on our walk a few days ago.  We have seen a few other kinds too, and of course our first rattle snake.  Now I take my snake stick with me everywhere I go and keep an eye out.

A pair of wrens is nesting in the condo bird house.  They are not at all hesitant to chase the robins and other large birds away.

There was a chilly breeze all day and our high was only 58, but it was perfect for working outside.

Saturday 6/10. It was 40 and mostly cloudy this morning.  Right after breakfast we drove down to the standing-dead tree that JB wanted to cut.  It is a little more than half way down our driveway, about 15 ft in on the east side.  Dark clouds quickly gathered and just after JB started cutting the rain arrived.

So we changed our project for the day and fixed the wood shed roof instead.  The snow in the past two winters had weighed it down enough that the short side of the roof needed to be braced up.  We used JB's hi-lift jack to raise it up and slid a 4"x4" under it.  Hopefully that will do the trick.

The only thing we don't have a bumper crop of this year is humming birds.  There seems to be less of them than normal.  Not sure why.

Several rain showers passed overhead during the day and our high was only 54.  We had a fire in the wood stove in the morning and evening

Sunday 6/11. It was 54 and clear this morning.  JB sharpened the two chainsaw chains; put one of them on the chainsaw, and we were back down the drive to finish cutting the tree.  It fell right where we wanted it to, then JB cut it into 8' pieces and pulled each one up to the splitter.  I limbed it and tied each piece with the towing strap.  We ended up with seven logs at eight feet and two at about five feet.  That gave us about 65' of really hard fir.

Taking a break for lunch, we were done at about 2:30 pm and both pretty tired.  But it was a good day's work and felt good to get it done.  Puffy clouds scuttled across the sky all day and our high was a very pleasant 65.

JB is going Down There tomorrow to get my Jeep fixed, probably just needs an alignment or something related.

Monday 6/12. It is 48 with clear skies and wind this morning.  Very strong winds are due in this afternoon.

Thought for the day: I already want to take a nap tomorrow.