We made a plan to have this past Saturday be an outside work day here at Twin Oaks.
Our first outside work day since we have moved here!
I was VERY excited to see the work beginning on our land!
There were several trees that needed to come down, and several more that needed trimmed.
We made a long debated decision to take down most of the trees at the end of the driveway.
They blocked our view backing out, and the view of us backing out to anyone who was coming down the road.
They were simply just too dangerous!
The day started out rainy, but was supposed to clear off.
The guys started working in the rain.
Here is the view with all of the trees still at the end of the driveway.
It didn’t take long for them to start coming down!
Pretty soon the rain was done, even though the sky stayed pretty dark!
There was one lone tree left to come down.
We have some GREAT neighbors.
One neighbor was going by on his tractor, saw that huge tree down, rallied another neighbor, and they drug the tree down into a ravine with the tractor.
It saved us SO much time!
We had been dragging the rest of the trees and branches to a big pile of already dead debris on the back of our land.
Look how big and open the driveway looks now!
We had neighbors stop and tell us they were thankful we had cut those trees down, because they thought they were so dangerous too.
Even though we cannot see any of them from our home, there are eight houses (some of them farms) past us on our country road.
After getting the big trees by the driveway down, the guys trimmed up some others.
I was working in the kitchen all day, but every time I came out to check on the progress I would see Tate in the middle of the action working as hard as the big boys.
He is an inspiration I tell ya!
After lunch they decided to go after a huge, old dead tree in the front of our land right on the road.
A neighbor saw the guys working on it, and came to our rescue again!
He had a much bigger chain saw, and with his help the tree came down much more quickly.
The kids had a blast watching all the action!
Yes, I made them move before the tree fell!
After the tree was down we studied it to see how old it was!
School coming to life for these kiddos!
There were 115 rings in that stump!
And we have no idea how long it has been dead.
SO cool!
The colors right now are GORGEOUS.
God blesses us SO much!!
He does not have to give us things like this for our pleasure, but He does!!
We have some more plans that we are hoping to finish outside before the snow flies.
I hear there is snow predicted for this coming weekend – so time will tell if we can get the work done or not!
We know that the bulk of the work outside will have to wait until spring.
Just thinking about grading the land, planting grass, building a camp fire pit, finding a spot for our swing set and swimming pool, and planting our gardens makes me giddy!
Lord willing, the land at Twin Oaks will be a beautiful place to gather people together come next summer!
Hey everybody!!
Make some plans to come on over, ok?!!
