Hippity Hop

We started out by looking for the Easter Bunny on Sunday morning...unfortunately, Kage and Abbi found him first and put the run on him before I could get any chocolate eggs...  Oh, well...my waistline is in need of a caloric intake reduction.  That is something I will be working on beginning this week...lovely!

After finding the dogs had run off the Easter Bunny, Chad and I decided to get down to the nitty gritty of getting the tree off of the horse trailer.

In the beginning, the peanut gallery wasn't the least bit interested in what we were doing.  The weather has been awful here of late, so they enjoyed themselves in the sun and just give us an ear here and there depending on the noises coming from our side of the pasture.  It was nice to be able to get some things done without their noses in my back.

So we let the chainsaw loose!

We also got the tractor involved...it was all the tractor could do to move this larger portion of the tree.  It bogged down not too much farther down the road.  So we made our "log deck" there.  It will be easy for the land lord to saw up for fire wood this summer.  I suspect this could be some of the most expensive fire wood he has ever burned!!  (He has checked with the insurence company and the horse trailer isn't covered!!)

The tree landed squarely on this post...it drove it down into the ground about 4 1/2 to 5 ft into the ground.  The nail you can see held on the top rail of the fence.  Pretty interesting...the hole isn't oblong or molested in any way...  Oh, the power of Mother Nature!!  ( :

Towards the end of our work day the smallest members of the peanut gallery decided it was time to come over and give their two cents worth.  I just love these two criminals!!

Of course the larger nuts were soon to follow!!

The gallery got a little goofy when we pulled the last bit of tree through the hole on the fence...all in a days work!!

This is the end result for today.  We still have some clean up to do, fence to replace, and we need to figure out how to get the tree from its root bundle and the top of the trailer.  Next weekend maybe we can get the majority of that handled.  I will work on the clean up after work everyday until its done.  No reason to rush it!!  ( :