Today was yard work day. Mostly we burned things that had been in the yard. Mom had a lot of old branches which she tried to chop up with a hatchet. That did not go well. I finally got out the large hack saw and cut them down to size. This naturally prompted Mom to find more old branches, which in turn prompted me to say “hey, Corwin, saw some wood!1”.
We kept the fire going from around noon until 9 that night, feeding it branches and lots and lots of pine needles. Mom even through big wet glops of needles one, which took a long time to burn down because we had let the fire mostly burn out by then. By the end it had all been consumed down to a thin layer of charcoal and ashes.
Mom also worked on cleaning out the gutters and drafted Corwin for handling the ones around the sun room roof. Corwin acquiesced because it meant he could climb out his bedroom window and walk on the roof. Mom ended up going on top of the high roof without falling off. I made sure to get some pictures early in the process, though, just in case.
1 Wow, that’s a nicely ambiguous statement. I will have to remember that.