The weather was perfect for working outside and that's just what I did after my quiet time and then a bowl of Cherrios with fruit for breakfast. I fired up the chainsaw and had one tall oak about 60 feet in height down and was trimming it up when neighbor Gerald arrived with his chainsaw. We worked that tree up in no time and then he helped me throw down another tall oak about the same in height and a little bigger around. While I trimmed that oak he began hauling sawed wood down to his place for firewood to burn for heat this winter. With both of us sawing on the tree it was sawed up in no time and we decided since it was lunch time to haul the rest of the sawed stove length wood on Thursday as we both were soaked with sweat and that we were retired(no since killing ourselves).
Nancy made a chicken salad for lunch and since I was so sweaty and dirty I ate outside on the picnic table then I finished raking and piling the brush from the sawed tress. I worked on that for another hour or so then changed out of the wet clothes for an hour or so rest on the back porch reading. We then took off for our daily hike to the top of the mountain. There was some mist and haze in the valleys and the view was limited to about 40 miles or so. We stopped and visited briefly with the Browning's before heading on back down the mountain.
I picked more sugar peas and Nancy made a beautiful salad to go along with the stir fried peas, fresh mushrooms, and onions over a bed of Jasmine rice with a grilled Salmon steak for supper. We invited Gerald to eat with us and afterwards we got in a game of 3 handed hearts and then a game of Oh Well for 17 rounds. I won the hearts and Gerald, Oh Well. The gals didn't fare well tonight. After Gerald left we did the dishes then settled into Duck Dynasty until it was time for showers and eventually a little reading before lights out at 11 for me, LATER Nancy took a few pictures of us working on the oak trees.
