Well we awoke Saturday morning to a surprisingly sunny, and mild day. The weather forecast was for the entire weekend to be a washout, so the lack of rain was a huge bonus. We gathered the kids and some buckets and went down to check the sap flow. Just before we were to check the first buckets I saw that the tree in the center of the picture below has fallen on one of our lines. The tree was obviously one of the many standing dead trees that I have yet to take down. We had some high winds on Friday that probably contributed to it’s demise.
Lucky for me, I had the chainsaw in the garage ready to go, and the tree was nice enough to fall in right over a ditch that made cutting a breeze.
After I finished cutting all my helpers were lined up to shuttle firewood up to the house.
Once the wood was brought up and split we collected the buckets for an afternoon boil before the rain!
