Day 383

Mom and Dad came down last night to help us work. So we are busy again this weekend. We had hoped to be digging the bees and the honey out of the wall. But they seem to still be alive and doing well. :( This is not turning out to be the "easy" thing that I had hoped it would be. So instead we continued the work on the first floor kitchen. Jonathan and Dad knocked down the plaster and lathe while Mom and I carried it to the dumpster. When you are just putting the plaster in the dumpster it could take a long time to fill it. We are keeping the lathe to burn in our wood stove next winter. Soon we will be taking all of the nails out of the lathe and cutting them to the right size.

Here is how much that we have put into the dumpster so far. We have one more week to fill the thing up.

The afternoon was spend in town. We went out to lunch and Zeb had a friend's birthday party to go to. But when we got home Dad took out the chainsaw. It was time to cut down a big tree branch so we could get ready to put up a swing for the kids.

Here you can see the tree after we have cut the big branch off that would have been in the way of the swing.

These are all of the leafy branches that we cut up.

The big trunk pieces that need to be split and then we can burn them next winter.

And here is the pile of smaller branches we cut up when we cut off the branch. These will also be good to burn next winter.