What a great day!

I could tell it was going to be a good day when I saw the sunrise this morning! Then when I went to the shop, I found the problem with the Dr 1, the wings were warped!  After shrinking the covering while holding in the corrections, things started fitting much better.  I also adjusted the length of one strut mount.

James called and asked if I wanted help today, of course I did and I put him to work filling in over the septic tank.  Hard work, first it is wet and heavy, then sticks to the shovel and has to be shaken off.

We took a break from the digging because I wanted to try my limb chain saw.  It is two 25 foot ropes with a special chain saw in the middle that has teeth on both sides and it cuts in both directions.  I got it because some maple limbs hang over the yard.

James made a couple of attempts at throwing the weight bag over the limb but there were too many other limbs in the way, so he used the 23 foot extension pole to get the bag over the limb.

I may have to add some more weight to the bag, because James had to pull it down with the pole.  We each took an end of the ropes and moved back from under the limb and started pulling the chain back and forth.  It only took a couple of minutes to do each limb.

Vera had us pose with our first two limbs as we were headed toward the driveway.  There was a limb right over it that I wanted to take down.

James was able to throw the weight bag over the limb by the driveway.

We only had to saw about halfway through this one before it fell and got tangled in our ropes.

Then we went back and finished filling the hole, when it was done, I had James get the 4 wheeler and trailer out and we loaded up the old bark dust.

We hauled it out to one of Vera's trails where a falling tree had made a hole.

Once when Vera walked by the Maxima, she thought she smelled gas, so when we were done, James and I checked it out.  We did not find anything and we could not smell any gas even after running it for a few minutes.

Vera had made a batch of cocoa mounds this afternoon and she sent James home with a bag full.  The picture is the leftovers that I get, Yum Yum!