Tree mess cleaned up

 I finished the clean-up on the maple trees the power company took down for me yesterday afternoon. There is a fellow down the road that wants to cut the stumps further down for the firewood. I hope he does, I'm all for it.

Picking up firewood

 Jim stopped over today to help set up the Starlink for the girls and picked up a load of firewood while he was here. We made a dent in it. There is still quite a bit left.

Big maple trees gone

The tree crews arrived yesterday to take down the two big maple trees near the drainage ditch. One was dead already and the other one had a bad case of trunk rot. We wanted to get them down so they didn't take our power line down when the eventually fell over.

They started with the dead one. It didn't take long to get that one cut off.

They got about halfway done with the second tree the first day. That one had a lot more limbs to chip up and was still growing.

The finished up this morning. All the big wood was left, but I knew they were going to leave it. That way, it was on the power company's preventative cutting schedule. A lot of the left wood will become firewood for Lisa and Jim.
 

Storm damage clean-up

 

I helped Lisa and Jim open up their driveway and started cutting the tree trunks back last week. The trees fell during one of last week's storms. There is also some fence damage to be repaired.

Making pasta sauce

I picked a 5 gallon pail of tomatoes from Lisa's garden last week and made some pasta sauce from it. 

It took an extra day to cook it down to the thickness that I wanted. 5 gallon pail made a little over 3 quarts of sauce. 

 

And putting up some more pickles

 

Lisa's garden is still going strong, so I got a few more cucumbers this morning and made another batch of pickles. These along with the other 18 jars should hold for a while.

Putting up onions

I pulled about half of our onions yestrerday and the other half today. All together, we got 4 gallon sized bags of chopped onions. The new chopper worked very well.