Cutting down the dead Ash tree

In one of my previous posts you saw that the neighbors dead ash tree fell on my garage and greenhouse . Well there was still a lot of tree still standing and in danger of falling on my garage again. Today my friends came over with the tractor to help me pull it down. I was to say the least a little nervous because it was in the neighbor's yard. There is a shed and her wellhead near where I had to drop it. Here is the tail.

Cliff and Doug.

Here is Cliff after we got the straps and chains hooked up . We had to get far away.

This is hours later after I had it all cut up. A lot of work but it will help heat the house next winter. All I have to do now is get it all split and piled up in the back. Any volunteers?

Click on this to see it closer.

Okay it's going down! Watch the upper limb hit the little tree and break in half. That saved the shed!

An Afternoon with Grandpa

Last week the daughter-in-law called to ask if we could watch Macy for a while and Gin was busy at the church so I got to watch Macy ...all by my self! I thought that she might be unhappy that GG wasn't there cus she loves her GG but all was well. In fact it was wonderful.

I haven't smiled that much for a while. She kept saying the cutes things and I was kept busy every minute. What was really nice was that I had her all to my self and could take as many pictures as she would allow. The following is my Macy Day pictures.

A Surprise Night Out

Last night Mark and Bernie took us out for a "surprise "! We expected dinner at maybe the local place in Dundee or something along those lines. They wouldn't tell us where until we got real close....It was Mancy's in Toledo! Holy Cow. This place is really the top of the line and expensive...we had no clue.

This is where I took Ginny on our first date some 41 years ago. We hav only been there a half a dozen times since.

We had great waittress. She took all of the teasing that Mark and I was giving her very well and was real sweet. She had as much fun as we did and she even took our pictures for us to document the night.

Here we are enjoying the soup before the main meal came out.

I'm the handsome one and Mark is the other one.

Thank Mark and Bernie ...It was a great night out.