We started the day with a sleep in because of these cozy flannel sheets until nearly 7:30 once again. Wow are they ever comfortable and so conducive to sleeping do much so you just don't want to roll out. Luckily it's been rather warm the past few days so we have had the heat off in the cabin and the morning have bee almost Spring like except for the bare trees surrounding the cabin. The trees are showing their nakedness with bare limbs as most of the Maples, Gums and Poplars are stark in the loss of their leaves. What a drab contrast to summer when their leaves are green and the past couple of weeks have shown off their brilliance with such color. It is difficult to imagine seeing them so dull for the next several months; however a few of the Oaks still have some leaves but they are mostly a dull brown. The ground is knee deep in places with leaves.
I fired up the chain saw an took down another Oak which had a crooked trunk that bordered our flower garden in the backwoods yard. That took me most of the day to work it up to manageable sizes for the log splitter. I used the old sledge hammer and wedges to bust the chunks into smaller sizes to where I could handle them individually. This will probably keep neighbor Gerald in enough wood for the winter. He brought his tractor up and pulled out the stump for me as well as loaded up several front loader buckets of downed wood that I had cut up last week. With all of the trees taken down this past couple of days the backwoods yard should have plenty of light for next years grass to grow.
We did salmon cakes, Swiss chard from the garden and rice pilaf for supper and afterwards we settled into the Fox News channel. I got a disturbing phone call from an old classmate that one of our classmates had suddenly passed away while in Florida on vacation. Shirley Barnhart was one of the 50th reunion organizers and seemed in good health when we saw her just a month or so ago. I don't have any particulars on her passing but we have grown close via FaceBook the past several years. We are so saddened by her passing but now she is celebrating with CHRIST as she was a believer and a follower, LATER Here are few pics from yesterday's; stump pulling, tree cutting, wood hauling and wood splitting project.
