The Tree

Yesterday we did the puzzle that Ben got for his birthday from a friend. The pieces were all sorts of wierd shapes and sizes. Everyone kept taking breaks because they got a headache from staring at the pieces for so long!

We had an old dead tree in our yard that we decided to cut down today. First, Dad chopped half of it off.

Then, the boys had fun digging a hole around it, to cut the roots and loosen the soil enough.

Then (and this is what I do not have a picture of) Dad took a cable, attached it to the tree and the trailer hitch on the van, and drove the van which yanked the tree out. It was really, really neat to watch. (It is times like this that I wish we had a video camera, not the twenty second videos on the regular camera. That would have made one great movie!)

The tree, dragged across the lawn.

We will be planting a new tree onve we figure out where the electrical lines and all are.