Fast forward to yesterday morning. It just so happened that the guy our tree guy uses for his bucket truck was on our street doing another job. SO! He came and took the trees in our yard down (as well as two trees of our neighbors). Thank God we were home when this happened because after they laid the trees down and Jim and I saw all the brush, we knew that it would be way too much for us to deal with, especially since we had planned on getting the splitter today. So, we changed our minds and bing, bang, boom, the tree dudes brought their giant wood chipper over and cleaned up for us. As for the splitting the wood - Jim asked our neighbor to use his truck (which has a hitch) and he got the splitter last night. I hope to start splitting by 9:00...we only have the opportunity to use it until 3:30 since the rental place closes at 4:00 but I think we can bang it out. It's less wood than we've had in the past. We'll split - Jim can take the splitter back and then we'll stack. I'm sure I'll be sore as hell tomorrow. Oh, and we have another tree that leans across the driveway and is dead that we'll get taken down in a few weeks (notice the one leaning toward Jim's car...that's a rental btw - he still hasn't gotten his car back...that's the car). This means renting the splitter again but it'll be worth it for winter. This should keep us in firewood for the next couple years...I hope. I'll take a pic once it's all stacked. Today is going to be a busy and tiring day.
Well, I'd best get crackin'...breakfast, walk Sami and then we'll crank up the splitter. Later!
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