2008-04-30
Fastest Way to Get Ed Out of Bed
I've never seen Ed wake up and get out of bed as fast as I did this morning. I woke up around 7 am, got out of bed about 5 minutes later, wandered into the family room and looked out the window. Nothing was happening so I sat on the couch. About 2 minutes later I heard a motor start, looked out the window and saw a man with a chain saw. I scurried to the bedroom to wake Ed and there he was standing beside the bed with 3 cylinders firing and no coffee in him ---- pretty much a first.
On Monday we had decided that a big old spruce tree that was quite near the house had to be taken down before the addition was built (it would be an easy job now and a much harder job later and the tree probably wouldn't last that much longer). The fellow who owns the backhoe company decided that he could do it and would do it on Wednesday morning --- we just didn't realize that they would come quite that early. Took about a half hour to take the tree down and another half hour to remove the debris and clean up the yard. These guys were pretty incredible. By 11 am the excavation for the foundation was dug and the "surprise" was removed --- there was another truckload of stump and roots from a Maple tree that was removed a number of years ago (we had heard from a neighbour that there had been another Maple tree but didn't know where it was and that the stump had not been removed).
Now we have to plan the barbecue patio which is going to where the tree had been.
The back of the house before the trees are removed. The big one by the house and two small ones by the workshop were removed.
Timber!!!!! The lower branches of the tree were removed, a cut was made in the trunk of the tree, then a push by the backhoe and down came the tree.
The "surprise roots" were found when he starting digging the hole for the foundation.
On Monday we had decided that a big old spruce tree that was quite near the house had to be taken down before the addition was built (it would be an easy job now and a much harder job later and the tree probably wouldn't last that much longer). The fellow who owns the backhoe company decided that he could do it and would do it on Wednesday morning --- we just didn't realize that they would come quite that early. Took about a half hour to take the tree down and another half hour to remove the debris and clean up the yard. These guys were pretty incredible. By 11 am the excavation for the foundation was dug and the "surprise" was removed --- there was another truckload of stump and roots from a Maple tree that was removed a number of years ago (we had heard from a neighbour that there had been another Maple tree but didn't know where it was and that the stump had not been removed).
Now we have to plan the barbecue patio which is going to where the tree had been.
The back of the house before the trees are removed. The big one by the house and two small ones by the workshop were removed.
Timber!!!!! The lower branches of the tree were removed, a cut was made in the trunk of the tree, then a push by the backhoe and down came the tree.
The "surprise roots" were found when he starting digging the hole for the foundation.
# posted by The Agnew Family @ 10:53 AM 
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