You may remember last December I related a story about one of our tree limbs breaking off and falling onto the roof of our house. It was snowy at the time as you can see in the picture below.
Because of the danger of slipping and falling or having a heavy tree limb fall right on us, we decided not to try and do anything with the tree limb right then. Today we finally got around to taking care of it. Lance and family came up in the morning and we crawled up on the roof with a chainsaw to start cutting the limbs apart. The biggest limb was too heavy for us to even move at first. But as we cut a bit off here and a bit off there, it became light enough for us to be able to drag it to the center of the roof where it wouldn’t come crashing down onto the porch if it got out of balance. Once we got started it looked like a pretty big job but soon realized that it would not take as long as we thought it would. We tried to cut the pieces a manageable size, then we threw them over the edge of the roof into the drive back to the shop.
While we were doing this, Cherise and Rachel went to Target and Karen and Ben had a chance to get Karen’s new Red Stick Dogwood planted.
We ended the morning having Chick-fil-A for lunch.
Amazing how much larger a limb is on the ground (or roof)than is is up in the tree!!
What kind of bush are Gramma Karen and Ben planting?
Good lunching.
Looks like sunny fun for all!
I bet everyone breathed a sigh of relief when that job was finished and no one was injured and no damage was done.
lance looks so happy to have his photo taken!
Butch … looks like Lance did all the work and you took the pictures! Poor baby!
It does look like that doesn’t it. Being younger and sprier, he did do more work of course. Karen gave me hell because we didn’t get any pictures of me doing anything. I did do things! At first I did the cutting and Lance did the heavy lifting, but after a while we alternated.
Boy, it still looks kind of cold in Iowa!
Lance looked very manly wielding the chain saw and I do believe that Butch helped. Uh Huh…. a good job done by all!
loved the pics .I believe you Butch _I’m your Mum